Aliens aren't real, and you can't travel faster than lightspeed. Austin DeCoy is very sure of this, until he is found by Elias Gilder, a scientist and astrophysicist from a secret agency who has discovered quite the opposite. Austin now has the task of going with Elias and his team to an alien planet using new technology and studying something he never thought was possible. But something doesn't want them there... It wants them off its planet. Now.