When quantum physics meets parental instincts, the universe gets complicated.
Dr. Donna Smyth thought she'd seen everything in her years as a quantum engineer—until she discovered a clutch of crystalline eggs that shouldn't exist, hidden in the wreckage of an impossible singularity. Now she's trapped on a remote research station with Thorne, a sardonic flerken salvager who'd rather be anywhere else, and Sparuman, an AI learning to feel emotions one awkward moment at a time.
The eggs aren't just beautiful—they're alive, sentient, and their very existence is tearing holes in spacetime. When the ruthless Hroth arrives to claim them as weapons, Donna faces an impossible choice: hand over beings she's grown to love, or watch reality collapse around them.
But these aren't ordinary children. They respond to lullabies with quantum harmonics, and their emotional states can stabilize—or destroy—the fabric of space itself. As patrol corvettes close in and the station's systems fail, Donna must use everything she knows about physics, parenting, and the power of a mother's love to protect her unlikely family.