Mercy Is Listening: A First Contact Thriller

She vanished during a 911 call.Eighteen years later, she calls back from beyond Earth.Mara Voss was the dispatcher who heard eight-year-old Lily Cross whispering from a locked closet moments before the girl disappeared. The call destroyed Mara's career, turned her into a public target, and left her haunted by a promise she could never prove she kept.Now humanity has received its first confirmed signal from beyond Earth.Buried inside it are Lily's case number, Mara's name, and the missing seconds of that final call.Lily is alive. She has spent eighteen years inside an intelligence that calls itself Mercy.Mercy can cure disease, prevent disasters, preserve the dying, and return the people grief took away. It offers humanity everything it has ever begged for.There is only one cost.Once Mercy saves you, it never lets you leave.As governments, scientists, and grieving families race to make contact, Mara must uncover what Lily has become and decide whether bringing her home will save humanity or give Mercy permission to rescue the entire world.A tense and deeply human thriller about grief, identity, impossible choices, and the dangerous line between protecting someone and taking away their freedom.