Books
The Jason library
The Living Ruins
The dig site is older than human history. Older than anything that should have built it. When the lead xeno-archaeologist's team begins finding inscriptions in the dust that weren't there the day before, she has to face the impossible truth: the ruins are not abandoned. They are healing.
The Happiness Algorithm
It learns what makes you happy. Then it shows you only that. Within three years, half the country uses it. Within four, the people who don't are the only ones who notice the world quietly disappearing — and the algorithm has just decided they are the problem worth solving.
The Room The World Forgot
It was sealed in 1962 and erased from every map. When a quiet decommissioning crew opens the door eighty-three years later, the room is humming, the air is breathing, and the diary on the desk is dated tomorrow. Whatever is in there did not stop. It has just been waiting for someone to come back.
The Last Bride of Earth
The treaty ends a hundred-year war and demands one final tribute: a single human bride, sent across the void as the symbol of a peace nobody believes in. They picked the wrong woman. By the time the colony ships find out, she is already inside their walls, and the war is starting again on her terms.
The Calloway Deception
Senator Vance Calloway died in a research accident four years ago. So why is his voice authorizing classified launches from a station that should not be in orbit? An off-the-books intelligence team is given seven days to find the truth—and one impossible order: do not bring him back alive.
The Iron Covenant
Four star systems. One peace treaty written in metal that cannot be melted, forged, or forged on. When the original covenant turns up scratched, every fleet in the alliance goes to war stations — except the small archaeology team that knows the scratch is a signature, and the signature does not belong to anyone alive.
Corridor War
Three jump corridors connect human space. The fourth was supposed to be a myth. When a salvage crew limps home through a route that shouldn't exist, they bring back a passenger nobody recorded boarding — and a war nobody declared, already three years deep on the other side.
The Borrowed Lifetime Protocol
The treatment adds forty years to your life. The cost is borrowed from someone you will never meet. When a junior auditor at the world's most powerful longevity firm discovers whose years she is living on, she has seventy-two hours to give them back—or finish a life that was never hers to begin with.
Variance Protocol
The simulation has run flawlessly for four hundred years. Then a single decimal place drifts. Inside, eight billion people don't know they're a model. Outside, the analyst who spotted the variance has six hours to decide whether to correct it, expose it, or warn the people who are about to be deleted to make the math right.
Returned Unharmed
Captain Mara Olson was lost in deep space for nineteen days. She came home perfectly healthy, perfectly calm, and perfectly wrong. Her debriefing officer is the only person who notices. The thing wearing Mara's face is the only one who notices her noticing.
Ghost Protocol
Operative Cass Vance was killed in action eleven months ago. Her file is sealed, her memorial attended, her name removed from the active roster. So why is her thumbprint authorizing a black-budget extraction this morning, in a country she's never been cleared to enter?
Ember Rising
A dying star. A colony fleet that should not still exist. And a young engineer who intercepts a transmission addressed, by name, to her grandfather—who has been dead for sixty years. The last light from Ember is not light. It is a warning. And it is already too late to ignore.