For ten thousand years, the Quantum Order kept the peace — and kept a secret. Beneath their greatest Temple, in a pit built by the nine founders themselves, something the Source cast out has been waiting. Its name is Dark Matteris. Its patience is geological. And the people paid to keep it contained have been quietly working to set it free.
Jake Slade is ten years old when the sky over his home fills with ships. He doesn't know it's a test. He doesn't know his mother has already traced the shape of the conspiracy through the Order's own records. He doesn't know the man she loves is being unmade from the inside.
He only knows that when the world ends, someone has to carry what remains.
The fall of the Order. The rise of Dark Matteris. The beginning of Jake Slade.
