Publisher's Synopsis
Months after going dark with the resistance cell known as The Rift, Aria Vega finds herself increasingly haunted by her own memories-some real, some implanted, and others belonging to versions of herself from alternate timelines. The Helix Protocol has begun deploying Echo Waves, temporal feedback loops causing memory dissonance and destabilizing identity across the globe.
Led by the enigmatic Dr. Sonya Tran, the Rift sets out to find Orion Thatch, the original coder of Helix who was believed dead decades ago. Their journey takes them to The Slip, a temporal outpost suspended between parallel realities. There, Aria meets Riven Noor, a timeline courier with fractured memories of Aria as friend, lover, and enemy. As Earth begins to splinter across quantum variants, Aria and Riven must navigate hostile timelines-including a dystopia where Helix has already won and another where Aria never existed-to recover Orion's failsafe key. But when Aria comes face to face with a darker version of herself-an Aria who helped weaponize Helix-she must question not just what she's fighting for, but who she really
