FRACTURED REALITIES. VOLATILE ALLIANCES. A COLLIDING EVENT Jake left his father to give humanity a second chance. But their new world is failing, and the others are lying to him. Without Wendy, Jake turns to his Dreamworld for answers and discovers that he controls the fate of both parallels. Mars is transferring minds into hybrid Martian bodies, blurring human and digital existence. Commander Ritter struggles to calm rising tensions between the original colonists and transplants. Charlize, trapped in digital form, fights to maintain her humanity. Her daughter, Leora, just wants her mom back. People are disappearing from the Sphere. Patricia is mysteriously attacked. Thousands suffer from debilitating hallucinations on Earth. Is the culprit merely over-immersion in the Verse, or something more sinister? With personal and professional legacies at stake, Bronson and Nolen Aromas vow to find out. The bet's on.