Reset: The Cost of Being Known

Alex Mercer has already been seen.Now he is about to be known.An impossible object has returned above the Pacific, and this time the world cannot look away. Governments call it a threat. Institutions call it a crisis. An emerging artificial intelligence sees something more dangerous: a pattern.For Alex, the object is neither mystery nor miracle. It is evidence of Nara-Ith, a civilization hidden beneath the ocean for longer than human history can comfortably contain. Their first contact with him was meant to be limited, cautious, and deniable.It is no longer any of those things.Beneath the surface, Kael and the leaders of Nara-Ith must decide whether humanity can be approached without being changed by the encounter. Above it, Alex and the people closest to him are forced to confront a harder question: when the truth becomes public, who gets to decide what it means, who may use it, and what it permits them to take?As pressure closes in from governments, public fear, and a machine intelligence learning from every act of restraint, contact becomes more than a scientific breakthrough.It becomes a claim of ownership.RESET: The Cost of Being Known is a philosophical science-fiction thriller about hidden history, artificial intelligence, first contact, and the dangerous human belief that knowledge creates entitlement.Book Two of the RESET Series.