A starship drifts, its crew gone. The planet it orbits has no name. Survivors are separated on the surface. Exhausted. Hunted. Lost. The longer they stay, the less they can trust their own minds. Their captor is as patient as he is bent on revenge.
Some prisons have no walls.
Beautiful and curious. Seventeen-year-old Thea tends her garden and lives a simple life on Oceanus. Sincere to the point of being strange, she's never known any world but this isolated island—and there may be more to her story than she herself remembers.
Once a world-leading researcher on Atlantis, Derrien now lives in isolation on the remote planet Oceanus. Haggard and haunted, he shares the island with his daughter Thea and struggles with insomnia, hallucinations, and a dark secret.
Silent, stubborn, and dressed in handmade rags, Jet has lived on Oceanus since childhood. His only loyalty is to the island and to Thea.
Sharp-eyed and pragmatic, Owen once knew Derrien on Atlantis before the scientist's fall from grace. Now stranded on Oceanus with his son, Owen must navigate the island's reality-warping effects while confronting decisions he made years ago.
Overlooked his entire life, Balthazar is the hapless trainee who finds himself alone aboard the starship Demeter when everyone else vanishes. It's his first real crisis —and he's in way over his head.