Trapped aboard the crippled starship Erebus, spiraling toward the crushing grip of a black hole, Inspector Layton Trent and his team face oblivion. Their only hope? A desperate alliance with the ship's renegade crew. Bitter enemies must work together, or they'll vanish into the abyss.

But survival comes at a price. When Erebus finally breaks free, they emerge 20,000 years in the future to a desolate galaxy.

Entire civilizations are extinct.

Humanity is gone.

An overwhelming, enigmatic force has swept across the stars, consuming entire worlds to fuel its relentless expansion. The last remnants of intelligent life have fled toward the galactic core, desperate to escape annihilation. With no way back and an unstoppable enemy hunting them, Layton and his crew have only one choice, to follow the survivors into the unknown.

What begins as a desperate flight soon becomes something far greater.

From the ruins of a dying galaxy to the final flickers of existence itself, Layton and his crew will push beyond the boundaries of time and space, searching for answers—about the force that hunts them, the fate of those who came before, and the ultimate mystery of what lies beyond the end of everything.