A stolen gravity machine can crush anyone whose heartbeat betrays fear.
Ninety miles off the Virginia coast, Directorate operator Halsey leads a five-man extraction team onto the Carthage, a hijacked freighter drifting dark and silent. Their orders are simple: recover the classified generator intact before a foreign buyer arrives. Then they find bodies flattened into steel by force from impossible directions.
Below decks, armed devotees have trained themselves to remain calm inside the distortion. The device's corrupted safety system locks onto nearby heartbeats, turning panic, pain, and exertion into lethal vectors. Every gunshot, wound, and surge of adrenaline can wrench gravity sideways, hurl men into walls, or turn the cargo hold against them.
With the buyer closing in and his team trapped between zealots and a machine that weaponizes the body's most honest signal, Halsey must reach the controls without letting his pulse become its next command. Survival demands more than courage. It demands control so absolute that fear cannot touch his heartbeat, even as the ship breaks every rule of gravity around him.
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