In an intellectual clash of galactic proportions, the biggest mystery in the Universe encounters the smartest girl from Earth. Na-Yeli Maya is humanity's champion exploring the forbidding Enigmatic Object. She's not truly alone, as her exosuit is armed with the most advanced quantum computer-and obnoxious digital assistant-ever, and her tri-schizoid condition enables her to call up her ultimate warrior and lateral thinker personas in times of dire need.

She has to traverse six different layers-each a world of its own-with unique wonders, challenges and dangers. Along the way, she partners with a stranded Moiety Alien and adopts a group of Hypersounders, as they make it all the way into the Core, where a naked singularity distorts reality. Why is it there? If only they could find a way to use its other-worldly qualities for their own purposes. . .