Gary sometimes sees things, movement in the shadows or right there, in the corner of his eye. More often than not, he ignores them, convinced it's nothing. He's wrong. They're watching him. Snatched from his ordinary life and catapulted into Brightness, Gary finds himself alongside intergalactic beings, both courageous and strange, on a star-shattering adventure to determine the fate of the universe. But what must he sacrifice to become their ultimate weapon?