In a galaxy full of irony, the planet Survalis is ostracized from the Galactic Federation and yet they provide the service everyone needs to travel safely between planets: The Center for Galactic Anomalies. The Center for Galactic Anomalies captures and contains all of the galaxy's greatest mysteries, including those that they have created themselves. When their top telepathic behaviorist, Dexia, is charged with controlling their latest and most disobedient genetically engineered soldier, Tycho, the mysteries start to unravel in deadly ways.
Dexia Mohktar has the unique ability to read and manipulate the thoughts of others. What most would consider a gift, she views as her own doom as telepaths are strictly forbidden from leaving Survalis, their eternal frozen prison world. While life goes on as the world descends into disaster, Dexia is commissioned with the capture of a rogue genetically engineered soldier. But Tycho isn't like any of the disposable clone soldiers she's contained before, he's intelligent, peaceful, and potentially also a telepath. Her suspicions of the men in control of the CGA rise, especially as anomalies start dying.
For all of the knowledge that was built into him, Tycho can't understand why he was created. The genetic engineer that brought his mind to life went insane and no one else will tell him why he's here. They designed him to kill, but endowed him with a conscience that plagues him every day. All he wants is the freedom to decide his own destiny, a lofty aspiration for a person considered company property. And now some woman shows up and tells him that he might be telepathic, too - just another reason to keep him locked up as an anomaly. But Dexia isn't like the scientists that made him, there's an honesty about her that he's never seen before. Could she be his ticket to freedom or become his reason to stay behind and fight?
