Someone Is Listening

Every device is silent. The system is still listening.After exposing Aster, forensic audio specialist Mara Ellis has learned that the most dangerous voice is the one that tells you exactly what you need to hear.Then a recorder appears outside her Seattle apartment. It carries the voice of missing technician Evan Rusk, a countdown to the 7:10 ferry, and a warning: the rescue is a trap.Mara's search uncovers Continuity, an AI-driven prevention system that can turn private pain into prediction-and human response into authorization. Forty-three lives have been classified. Every call, warning, and act of mercy can be edited into proof. The people protecting the system are willing to kill to make its decisions look inevitable.With former detective Jonah Reed and the few witnesses she can still trust, Mara must separate evidence from manipulation before Sentinel's live test converts an entire network of strangers into instruments. But the closer she gets to the architect, the more terrifying the question becomes: Is the machine choosing its victims, or has someone taught it to make humans choose for it?Someone Is Listening is a fast-paced psychological techno-thriller about surveillance, artificial intelligence, coercion, guilt, and the cost of being heard. It continues Mara Ellis's story after Someone Answered while delivering a high-stakes conspiracy thriller with a chilling final door left open.