Burton Collapse of the Charon: Dimensional Rifts and Forgotten Legacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798999066008)

When repair technician Burton is violently abducted from his quiet life on the distant colony of Neda, he awakens aboard the enigmatic vessel Charon, a ship that shouldn't exist. The medallion he's carried since childhood suddenly radiates with inexplicable energy when interfaced with the ship's systems, unlocking abilities he never knew he possessed. But this is no coincidence. In the calculating eyes of Captain Christopher, Burton is merely a tool, a means to an end in a game spanning centuries and dimensions.

Forming an uneasy alliance with Lena, a defiant technopath with her scores to settle, and her loyal mechanical companion Harvey, Burton discovers that Charon harbors technologies capable of folding space itself. The ship conceals secrets that powerful forces would kill to obtain, and Burton finds himself at the center of an ancient conspiracy involving genetic legacies and interdimensional entities.

As reality-warping smoke-like beings manifest throughout the ship and dimensional boundaries grow dangerously thin, Burton must confront unsettling truths about his heritage and the medallion's true purpose. Racing against time and physics itself, he struggles to understand his role in this cosmic conflict before Charon's final collapse tears a permanent hole in the universe, a breach from which nothing human will emerge.