In the late 2400s, humanity wields "emptiness engines" capable of erasing events from reality itself. What started as technology to undo small accidents has become the ultimate escape from regret, trauma, and guilt.
Kael Dresden, a disillusioned memory architect, has secretly been using contraband emptiness tech to erase his own personal tragedies—the death of his brother, his father's suicide, his failed marriage. But each erasure creates fractures in reality, opening doors between possibilities that were never meant to connect.
When a mysterious woman named Vera confronts him, claiming she's from a version of history he erased, Kael is thrown into a conflict between competing factions: the Committee, interdimensional beings harvesting human potential through reality's fractures, and the Architects, temporal refugees fighting to restore causal integrity.
As Kael navigates a landscape of shifting truths and unreliable memories, he discovers the emptiness technology's true purpose was never erasure but reconciliation—the integration of fractured consciousness. Facing his own erased traumas, he must build a new kind of emptiness engine: one that heals rather than erases, that reconciles possibility with actuality, that fills the empty spaces left by denial.