A planet, beautiful beyond imagination, engulfed by pale mist. A colony, scrambling to escape its confines. A man, strapped to a strange device in darkness, his memories telling a story that can’t be true. Reality shimmers and tears at the edges.

The novel follows a young adult character thrust into a perplexing world, overwhelmed by the cost of reality.

It begins with a murder in a Montreal Asylum. All clues point to a discrete religious organization that will stop at nothing to protect their secret plan to create "gifted" humans.Was Christ really betrayed?