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Miche Sliccero, a brilliant but guarded hacker, cultivates a life of careful anonymity under the shadow of her infamous billionaire grandfather, Mickey Slick. She finds solace in her seemingly normal relationship with Shepherd More, but her carefully constructed world shatters when Mickey mysteriously vanishes.

Miche is suddenly plunged into a bizarre new reality. A cryptic man named Memento forces her to relive a traumatic childhood memory—the fiery car crash that killed her parents—and reveals a shocking truth: her family is not from Earth, and her "accident" was an attack orchestrated by unknown forces. The deepest cut, however, comes when her beloved fiancé, Shep, is exposed as an agent planted to monitor her, betraying her trust and revealing himself as part of a vast intergalactic conspiracy.

Abducted onto the sentient starship, the Affine, Miche is thrust into her destiny as the ship's new "Dreamer," destined to bridge the gap between human consciousness and cosmic power. Forced to confront her deepest fears—including her ingrained distrust of female relationships and her own immense, terrifying potential—Miche must quickly master her new abilities. With unknown enemies hunting her and a crew whose loyalties are uncertain (including a guilt-ridden Shep and a pragmatic, loyal baker named Benny), Miche must decide if she can forgive, fight, and lead to prevent a universal catastrophe.