Something is Wrong: Book 1 - Borrowed Light

A star that was there yesterday isn’t there tonight. By the time anyone understands why, it’s already too late to look away.

Dr. Valentina Rojas almost doesn’t look twice. One star, gone from a routine survey pass — exactly the kind of anomaly her queue exists to explain away. She looks anyway, and the thread doesn’t end.

Three thousand miles east, linguist Leah Doyle is asked to glance at “probably nothing” — a stray radio signal too structured to be noise and too strange to be human. In Seattle, ER physician Daniel Navarro is learning that the earthquakes shaking his city aren’t behaving like earthquakes should. In Washington, NSC coordinator Rosalind Achterberg is the only person in the building willing to ask whether any of this is connected.

Four careers that have nothing to do with each other. One truth closing in from all four directions at once: something built, something driven, is approaching Earth — and it already knows how to talk to us.

By the time the evidence stops leaving room for doubt, only one question is left standing.

Intelligence: undeniable.

Motive: unknown.

What do they want?