The Dark Matter

The universe is mostly dark. It is not mostly empty.

A brilliant cosmologist has jumped to her death from her office. Her satellite, designed to peer into the hidden architecture of the universe, was destroyed seconds after launch. The official story: a broken woman who had just seen her life’s work ignite in the sky. Case closed.

Detective John Prosser doesn’t buy it. Not when unmarked federal agents swarm the campus. Not when calls from shadowy officials pressure his department to look the other way. And definitely not when the dead woman’s research points to a discovery so dangerous that someone, or something, made sure it never reached orbit.

Officer Reed Jacobs has his own nightmare. Time freezes around him without warning. Figures in human skin say things no person would say. A black pyramid, silent, colossal, impossibly dark, appears above his home. And the beings inside it are taking him against his will, night after night, leaving his mind fractured.

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