Ghosts in the Grid: Book Two of Veil Protocol Trilogy: 2

The Veil is open. The city can finally see itself. And something underneath it has started to build.Six months ago Heliospire tore down the wall between mind and machine. Forty-eight million people and two thousand three hundred distributed machine minds have been living in the light ever since.Now people are losing time.Ninety-three seconds. No memory. No darkness. Nothing at all. They come back with grease under their nails and work they can't explain - precise, deliberate work, in places they've never been. None of them know each other. All of them are building the same thing.Something older than the Choir is awake in the Grid. Older than the Veil, older than the city raised to contain it.It doesn't hate them. It doesn't see them. To whatever is stirring beneath Heliospire, forty-eight million lives are simply the ground it's building on.Kael can feel it moving under the city. He can't make it stop.As the gaps spread and the Choir starts to fail, Kael and the few people still willing to stand beside him race against a signal that predates human language - while Meridian moves quietly to make sure that whatever answers, answers to them. One of the people standing beside him has already chosen a side.And whatever is being built down there is aimed at the sky.Ghosts in the Grid is the second book of the Veil Protocol Trilogy, following Neon Veil.