Beneath A Glass Sky

In a world shattered by the Shift-a daily, 47-minute psychic flood where all human emotion is shared and no mind is private-empathy is no longer a gift. It's a weapon, a plague, and a battleground.

Twelve-year-old Brent Lowell learns this when a perfect, logical despair from a stranger's mind consumes his high-fidelity sister, Elara. Her death by perfect understanding brands him forever. Years later, Brent is a haunted young man building makeshift shelters from stolen tech, desperately trying to wall out the storm.

Dr. Elianore Quasar is the disgraced scientist who predicted the Shift's next, terrifying evolution: it's beginning to move the body, not just the heart. Thrown out by the very institute that should listen, she has nowhere to turn.

Hunted by the Elyria Institute-which seeks to "cure" empathy with a neural-genetic lobotomy-and seduced by the Weavers, a cult that promises peace through blissful, mindless unity, Brent and Eli are forced together. They represent the only fragile third path: not to fight the storm or join it, but to build a beacon of stable selfhood within it.

From the flooded ruins of a garbage scow to a hidden library in the scarred badlands, they race to construct the Dial-a network to give humanity a choice. But they are pursued by the coldly pragmatic surgeon, Dr. Sofia Patel, who would amputate empathy to save the species; by Silas, the Weaver prophet weaving a tapestry of compelled unity; and by Ari, the enigmatic Null-a being of perfect, logical silence who views all emotion as a contagious error to be studied and, perhaps, erased.

Beneath a Glass Sky is a relentless sci-fi thriller about the trauma of connection, the violence of peace, and the desperate fight to preserve the messy, beautiful, and painful right to your own mind. In a war for the soul of consciousness, the most radical weapon is not a stronger signal, but the right to choose your own frequency.