Introduction: In a multiverse unraveling at the seams, a broken man is sent to extract the one person who can anchor a collapsing timeline... himself.Once a skilled jumper between realities, now jump burned and half forgotten, the smuggler鈥檚 only shot at clearing his debt and reclaiming his memories is to steal the life of a cleaner, unbroken version of himself. But when the mission spirals into a Bureau sting and an unexpected detour into forbidden space, both versions are forced into a fragile alliance.Hunted by timeline enforcers, trapped in a dimension where failed timelines go to rot, and tethered by choices neither of them made, the two must navigate betrayal, identity collapse, and a reality that no longer follows the rules.Survival comes at a cost.And in fractured time, someone always pays the fee....