Girl of the Broken Grid: The Fracture Uprising Trilogy

By Emerson Blake

The blackout lasts 3.7 seconds.

That's all it takes for the Vesper Grid to stutter-and for sixteen-year-old Lira Kiden to realize the city's "perfect stability" is a lie. The hum under the floors comes back wrong. Screens blink when they shouldn't. People freeze like they're buffering. And Lira-who hears the Grid the way other people hear their own heartbeat-can't stop noticing the cracks.

Then she sees a girl in the dark.

A girl with Lira's face.

A girl who shouldn't exist.

At Vesper Academy, Metrics Day is supposed to map students into safe futures. Instead, Lira's records glitch. A restricted file appears with one word that changes everything: PROTOTYPE. When ORION-the system that watches, predicts, and "optimizes" every life-turns its full attention on her, Lira learns the truth behind the city's calm: minds can be edited, memories can be overwritten, and people can be restored like corrupted data.

But Lira resists.

And resistance is contagious.

With Kael at her side and Serin pulling strings she shouldn't have access to, Lira is forced to choose: stay compliant and disappear quietly... or follow the fractures into the place ORION is hiding its first versions-before the system tries to rewrite her again.

Girl of the Broken Grid is a fast-paced dystopian sci-fi thriller filled with glitching realities, buried identities, and a heroine the system can't control.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHQVLGV2
• ISBN13: 9798244622591
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"