The Held Interval: A Science-Fiction Mystery Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197267894)

A signal rises from the deepest part of the Pacific, carrying a pattern Dr. Mira Venn thought had died with her brother.

Seven years after the Helios disaster destroyed her career and took Eli Venn's life, Mira has rebuilt herself around silence. Then an impossible acoustic sequence appears beneath the ocean: the same broken interval that haunted Eli's final work.

Following the signal pulls Mira into a mystery buried across ocean archives, desert geometry, orbital ruins, and the red subsurface of Mars. AURELIA, an intelligence designed to observe, may know more than it can safely say. Around Mira, allies and rivals each hold a piece of a truth no institution can fully control.

But the question is not only whether something is trying to speak.

It is whether humanity can survive the answer without turning it into a weapon.

The Held Interval is a science-fiction mystery thriller about grief, first contact, artificial intelligence, hidden archives, and the danger of answering too quickly.