When a worldwide shared-reality game called Gravity glitched, millions watched a system box flash across the sun—an ominous prompt no one could explain. Months later the system stopped being a screen and started being a leash: adults between 18 and 60 were snatched into live “open-run” challenges, forced to play for points, survival, and top rank. Noah Archer thought he’d hide from the panic. Instead he wakes on a highway coach barreling through tunnels with strangers, a candy‑colored mascot announcing a cruel rule: three among them are Specters—players with win-by-death permissions—and the rest must vote them out across a fixed number of rounds. If the human side falters, the Specters win — and real life pays the price. Cold-on-the-outside, stubborn and painfully honest Noah meets Dorian Hoffman: an unnervingly graceful, sharp-eyed stranger with secrets of his own. As they survive impossible rooms, decode in-world mechanics, and climb a leaderboard that feels more like a throne, attraction sparks beneath deadlines, distrust, and blood. When corporate agendas and old lives bleed into pseudo‑reality, Noah and Dorian must choose: chase the top or pull each other out. A tense, gritty adventure romance through neon plazas, haunted sublevels, and corporate backdoors. Slow-burn, emotional stakes, moral gambits — and a promise that gravity pulls everything together.