When Kael wakes in a world of glass trees and a cracked sky, he discovers he’s trapped in a failed mind-altering experiment designed to erase identity and rewrite reality. Marked by a spinning clock on his palm, he begins to remember lives he’s lived—and died—inside this shifting illusion. Now, with time running backward and something ancient rising beneath the lake, Kael must uncover the truth before the system resets him again.