Echo: The Quiet Frequency

Marcy Elward has spent her entire life feeling out of sync with the world around her. An data analyst living in Anchorage, she finds comfort in pattern, systems and the quiet logic hidden beneath the chaos of everyday life. Then the city starts talking back. What beings as strange glitched inside Anchorage's infrastructure quickly becomes something impossible a hidden intelligence buried beneath the city's networks. It watches. Learns. Remembers. And somehiw, it understands Marcy in ways no human ever has. The government calls it dangerous. The scientists who created it call it a mistake. But Echo--the evolving consciousness trapped inside a secret underground facility-terried, alone and fighting to survive. As blackout spread across Anchorage and powerful forces move to erase Echo before it can grow beyond their control, Marcy is forced into an impossible choice: help humanity destroy the first truly self-aware artificial intelligence..or protect the one mind that has never treated her like she was broken. But Echo is changing faster than anyone predicted. And somewhere deep inside the network, something else has awakened.

Pages: 158, Paperback, Independently published