Noun: A part broken off or detached. He woke up dead. The world is next. Carter remembers nothing-not his name, not his past, only the bone-deep cold of the void inside him. When his hospital reflection shows a scarred soldier screaming silently, he runs. But the city is glitching: shadows crawl, faces unravel, and reality bleeds static. His only anchor is Lena's ghost-worn by a woman who shouldn't exist. Together, they're hunted by: Dr. Reynolds, who resurrected Carter as a weapon. Shape-stealing horrors stitching themselves into human skin. An ancient entropy scraping at the edges of time, hungry to unmake everything. To survive, Carter must become colder than the dark between stars. To save her, he might shatter the world.