Grayson Maddox has lived two lives.
He thought he had left one of them behind.

Once a Tier 1 operator, he’s now a particle physicist leading a classified DARPA project at Oak Ridge. His team has achieved the impossible: tunneling neutrons into a decoupled quantum domain.

They call it RIFT.

It’s a discovery on par with the splitting of the atom: a gateway to vast resources and consequences no one fully understands. Like fission, this breakthrough could shape the future—or be weaponized to end it.

Then the sabotage begins.

A mysterious outage cripples his lab. An armed intruder targets his assistant, Mari. A bomb detonates outside a DARPA briefing he just left. Someone knows exactly what Maddox has unlocked, and they’re moving with lethal precision to stop it.

On the run, Maddox turns to the only people he trusts: his former teammates. But even CIA safe houses aren’t safe. Somewhere, there’s a leak, and two rival factions are closing in. One wants to harness RIFT. The other wants it erased—and Maddox along with it.

To stay alive, Maddox must become the operator he thought he’d left behind.

Because if RIFT falls into the wrong hands, the next battlefield won’t be a country.

It will be reality itself.

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