Cassandra Blackwood is a physicist with a god-tier ambition: she wants to stop time. Not the universe. Just moments. Her goal is preservation. She wants to freeze the dying to buy time for a cure. She wants to turn deep space travel from a generational suicide mission into a simple pause. With the help of her custom AI, they find success. But she didn't just open a door; she rang a dinner bell. Something ancient and evil was listening. Its arrival triggers an extinction event that shatters the laws of physics. This is Book 1 of an epic saga spanning 300,000 years, from the labs of the near future to a dislocated world of ancient horror and war, where the only thing that can save us is the one scientist who knows how the universe really works. This book is not for kids.