Since gravitational meteors fractured Earth in an event known as the Fall, life has become strange and violently unpredictable.

Except for Kaito Harada, who is slowly rotting on basic income.

Raised by the Hope Program and fitted with an implant no one will explain, Kaito is desperate for anything that feels like choice. When he is selected for an apprenticeship aboard the independent cargo ship Liberty, he thinks he has finally found a way out.

The job sounds simple. The crew is not.

The captain keeps dangerous secrets. A professor with a heartbreaking problem opens the door to a truth that stings and somehow still glimmers. And in the dark, creatures that blend machine with flesh are already feeding.

A corporation wants what Liberty is hiding. The government wants it contained. And the hardware in Kaito’s skull may be the only thing that can save the first family he has ever chosen, if it does not take him apart first.

Found family, body horror, broken gravity and the right to own your own mind.