Aren Vale was an ordinary researcher—until the day he became the most wanted criminal across infinite timelines.

Someone wearing his face massacres a research facility.
Evidence matches his DNA.
His fingerprints.
His memories.

But Aren didn’t do it.

Now hunted by the Multiversal Security Directorate and chased through collapsing worlds, Aren discovers a horrifying truth:

The killer is an alternate version of him—an anomaly born from a dead timeline.
A being who calls himself V-0.

V-0 can shatter timelines with a gesture.
He can walk through reality like mist.
And he needs Aren alive for one reason:

Aren is the last stable “anchor” in the multiverse—
the final piece V-0 needs to rebuild existence in his own image.

As worlds collapse and alternate selves turn against him, Aren races to uncover the memories V-0 stole from him—memories that hide the origin of the first multiverse fracture…
and the truth about Lyra, the woman he once loved in every timeline.

But every choice he makes reshapes reality.
Every mistake breaks another world.
And every version of him seems to die for the same reason:

Aren Vale was never meant to survive.

Will he uncover the truth behind the Engine that shattered creation?
Or will he become the monster he’s been framed to be?

One multiverse.
One truth.
Infinite consequences.

A researcher who becomes the most wanted man across timelines.


Calm, clever, morally conflicted, and burdened by responsibility he never asked for.


A natural anchor whose existence stabilizes branches of reality.


Hunted by MSD and by his own alternate selves.


Aren's alternate self from a dead timeline.


Cold, powerful, and driven by a single desire:


to create one perfect path, no matter the cost.


Believes Aren must follow the same evolution he did.


Brilliant scientist and Aren's partner in many timelines.


Connected to the original Engine experiment.


Her fate is intertwined with the collapse of the multiverse.


Elite agent chasing Aren across timelines.


Logical, sharp-witted, unexpectedly loyal.


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