THE ECHO PROTOCOL

In a world where pain is deleted, the truth is the only glitch.
Dr. Elara Vance is a mortician for the digital afterlife. As a top archivist at Aethelgard Inc., her job is to scrub the messy, painful memories from the dead to create "perfect" AI ghosts for their grieving families. But Elara hides a dangerous secret: she suffers from "Dissociative Déjà Vu"-violent, visceral memories of timelines that never happened.
When she uncovers a corrupted file belonging to the late quantum physicist Alistair Croft, she finds a warning hidden in a Fibonacci sequence. Croft didn't believe in the digital heaven Aethelgard was selling. He believed reality itself was collapsing-a phenomenon he called "The Unraveling".
Teaming up with Leo Croft, the physicist's estranged musician son, Elara discovers that the perfect peace Aethelgard offers is actually a localized extinction event. The architect of this silence is Silas Thorne, a man determined to "cure" humanity of its suffering by erasing the very friction that makes life real.
Hunted by "The Smooth Men" and racing against a timeline that is literally deleting itself, Elara and Leo must travel into the "Fracture"-a graveyard of collapsed realities. There, they realize that the only weapon strong enough to break the silence is not a gun or a code, but a song.
They must broadcast the one thing the world has forgotten how to feel: the beautiful, chaotic, and terrifying dissonance of the truth.