The future was supposed to be predictable. It wasn't.
For more than a century, humanity has been changing.
On Epsilon, descendants of the first settlers have built a civilization where people routinely live for centuries. Earth, meanwhile, continues to struggle with the consequences of its own choices. Faster-than-light travel has transformed civilization, making the distances between worlds almost meaningless.
Or so everyone thought.
When a routine FTL flight suddenly refuses to initiate, the ship's computer delivers a message that should be impossible:
INVALID TRANSITION PATH
There is no apparent obstacle. No navigation error. No malfunction. Yet something is preventing the ship from making the transition.
The answer leads to a discovery that will change humanity's understanding of the universe.
For generations, the mysterious spheres scattered across the galaxy have been little more than an unexplained curiosity. Now one of them has begun revealing its secrets?and those secrets suggest that humanity is not alone in using the vast network that connects distant worlds.
Mika, daughter of Sable and Aaron, has grown up on Epsilon in a civilization her parents could scarcely have imagined. Soren Kael, the son of Eryth, is training to become a caretaker of the very technology that made Epsilon possible. Neither expects to become involved in a discovery that reaches far beyond their world.
As the investigation expands, questions multiply.
Who built the sphere network?
How long has it been operating?
Why does Epsilon have one?
And perhaps most disturbing of all?
Why has the network suddenly begun to reveal itself?
Humanity has spent generations learning how to travel between stars.
Now it may have to learn what happens when the stars are connected by something far older?and far more powerful?than anyone imagined.
The Equilibrium series continues with a discovery that will redefine humanity's place in the universe.
