Crater Omen, a madman jilted by cosmic betrayal, sets loose a chain reaction at the center of the galaxy that threatens existence itself, only to find something lurking there that he hadn't bargained for. Meanwhile, his twin brother Oort desperately tries to hold on to the woman they both love, and must locate Diego Hadron: the sole hope for stopping Crater. Can Oort restore the Higg's field to its metastable state and bring to light that familiar presence hiding in the heart of darkness? Will he do it before Crater realizes his goal of ending all life and eradicating the very fabric of spacetime? Can either succeed as the cosmos unfolds beneath them, revealing a new reality no one could have expected? With the universe as their chessboard, the brothers Omen play a dangerous game with rules they're just beginning to understand...