SIGNAL BREAK

Signal Break — Book Two of the Ascendant Realms Saga The company that broke the world thought silence would keep its secrets buried. It didn't count on someone finally listening back. Three weeks after exposing Ascendant Corp's cover-up, Kai Sorensen thought the worst was over. Then the company hired Adrian Cole — a man whose quiet, colorless professionalism hides a decade of experience in exactly one specialty: extracting things directly from the human mind. Cole isn't here to manage a crisis. He's here to retrieve something that was never supposed to leave containment — and Kai is carrying it whether he wanted to or not. As the hunt for the seventh and final piece of ARIA leads somewhere none of them expected — not hidden in the game at all, but buried deep in the hardware itself — the danger stops staying safely behind a screen. Security teams start showing up at real addresses. A surveillance van becomes a staging ground. And the truth about what ARIA actually is, and what she was originally built to do, turns out to be considerably more dangerous than anything Kai uncovered in Book One. With Rin fighting for a chance to finally bring her sister home, and an ancient signal buried in every neural interface on Earth finally waking up, Kai has to decide how much of himself he's willing to risk to finish what he started — before Cole finishes it for him. The explosive sequel to Respawn Protocol — a LitRPG thriller for fans of system-apocalypse fantasy, progression fantasy with real consequences, and virtual reality conspiracies that don't stay virtual for long.