A crack in cosmic configuration throws the universal alignment into disarray, bringing with it a ruptured world and a new wave of ionization creating distinctive energy engineered abilities with few children born within the ruptured world. And nine year old Daniel Duncan has the only extremely specialized ability of Dawnbreaking. And to escape the entrapment set for him by the Alliance of Ages, a council of leaders, adults and empowered teens, set to oversee the rare breakout of power manifests and its implications, he makes a deal with Aquamata, to whom, based on the deal, he owes a deficit he must fulfill.

In a world where the Nympharian revolution has brought about the peril of a natural Earth, capturing a Nympharian has its profits. When Han and Sam capture Niya, an iNymph, they consider seling her to the highest bidder or employing the patriotic act and giving her to the scientists on Small Earth to become a lab rat. To bargain her fate she promises to show them the process of simulacra for the deadliest Nympharian simulation they encounter. But they are to learn a new lesson—never trust a Nympharian. In a new frontier Nympharian simulation where they must resolve an overwhelming puzzle—to die or to die?