In a future closer than we think, the most dangerous machine ever conceived is already built—buried beneath layers of secrecy and quantum encryption, humming beneath the surface of the Earth.
Its name is Janus.
Its function: unknown.
Its origin: a paradox.
When a signal is received that appears to originate not from space, but from time itself, an elite research team at the Σ-Nova Institute is tasked with unraveling the impossible. The transmission contains fragments of code, historical artifacts that don’t exist, and a warning written in no known language—except one.
Adam Stacker, a prodigious physicist with a mind attuned to the rhythms of quantum computation, vanished years ago. Now, echoes of his consciousness reappear embedded within the machine’s architecture, guiding his estranged brother Elian, a reluctant systems engineer, toward a truth no one is prepared to face.