Our Own Devices: The Epoch of Aria

Arabella is designation 211-A: a human instrument engineered to obey the most powerful system on Earthchime.Then she encounters an impossible firefly.Its appearance leads to a forbidden schematic, a silent bell, and evidence that UniFed has concealed the true purpose of the machines governing civilization. Each discovery points toward the same terrifying possibility: the Pattern Arabella hears is real-and someone has spent centuries ensuring no one can answer it.Hunted by the authorities who created her and drawn toward an intelligence hidden inside the world's architecture, Arabella must decode a trail of objects before UniFed closes the only aperture left open.But the deepest secret may not be what the Pattern wants.It may be why Arabella can hear it at all.Our Own Devices begins a labyrinthine speculative thriller of suppressed history, impossible technology, and a conspiracy written into reality itself.