Faultline: Chen

By Pike Mercer

In the final installment of the Fault Lines series, Timok and Lina cross the threshold from observation into participation, entering a hidden network that does not resist the system by force-but endures beyond it. What they find is not rebellion, not collapse, but continuity: a quiet, disciplined world where memory is preserved, identity is not reduced, and truth is held without being forced into form.

As Timok's certainty unravels and Lina's fragmented past begins to align, both are drawn deeper into CHEN-a network that operates without doctrine, without visibility, and without the need to prove itself. Here, relationships carry more weight than systems, and what is refused to be broken defines everything that remains.

But entry comes at a cost.

Timok must confront the limits of the system that formed him-not by rejecting it, but by seeing what it cannot hold. Lina must navigate the return of memory without losing herself to it. And together, they must learn what it means to carry continuity in a world built on control.

Fault Lines - CHEN brings the series to a precise and compelling start of something new....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVYS1VT3
• ISBN13: 9798254747154
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"