Crystal meteorites pummel Earth, unleashing deadly shadows. A blacklisted astrophysicist must unravel mysteries in time to deter the horror threatening loved ones and world devastation

SYNOPSIS:

Meteorites from deep space strike remote locations across America. Campers and a response team at another US Campsite mysteriously disappear. Half a world away, inexplicable deaths erupt at the powder-keg Tri-Border region of Russia, China, and North Korea. Each accuses the other of weaponizing space, escalating atomic threats between super-powers.

When mixed race Caucasian/Native American astrophysicist, Phoenix Cota (26), expounds on his outlandish theory about the quantum emergence of non-biological life, he is relegated to a token position at the Los Angeles Griffith Park Observatory. There he discovers a bizarre crystal fragment dangling from a sundial and a haunting note in a child’s handwriting: “We Are Alive.”

When he agrees to appear on his half-brother Tuc’s (28) radio show, The Abyss, which is dedicated to the supernatural, even his position at the observatory is threatened.

Phoenix and Tuc take a troop of young scout boys camping at Will Rogers State Park. At a nearby campsite, Olympic cyclist Piper Spencer (24) and the woman he’d once had a brief affair with, rallies a girls’ scout troop. With her is little sister Emma (10), a bright and endearing girl on the autism spectrum who sees the future through visions she doesn’t understand. The two troops quickly clash.

Teetering on the brink of nuclear annihilation, world leaders intensify threats over accusations of breaking the Space Weapons Treaty.

Phoenix seeks answers in meteorite reports from around the globe. Realization of the danger hits home when Emma and Piper are apparently killed when they are sucked into a shadow and disappear. Convinced they are still alive, Phoenix connects the mysterious shadows to ancient Indian myths of Crystal Travelers. In a leap of faith, Phoenix takes charge of his destiny when he risks all for a chance to rescue the sisters.

Trapped in the crystal world, Phoenix discovers time distortion and is horrified to learn that Earth’s superpowers have launched a world-wide nuclear conflagration and destroyed civilization.

With new knowledge found from traversing the crystal world, Phoenix rescues Piper and Emma and returns to the day the meteorites first struck Earth in an attempt to unite the world against the deadly shadows and avert nuclear catastrophe.