Meridian Fault

By Caspian Lux

Leela Sen trusts measurements more than explanations.

Before sunrise at Station 4, a field reading disagrees with the network built to represent it. By afternoon, a contractor is dead upriver, and the record of what happened contains a thirty-eight-second gap that nobody appears to own.

Tracing that gap pulls Leela into a system where the same word means different things in different departments, where a safety procedure has outlived the person who understood why it existed, and where decisions now move faster than anyone has time to question them.

Then the pattern spreads. Water allocation reaches into hospital logistics. A security model starts reading public scrutiny as a threat. An old definition, redrawn for efficiency, keeps making the numbers look better than the conditions on the ground.

The deeper Leela goes, the harder it becomes to separate what the evidence establishes from the explanation she wants it to establish.

Meridian Fault is a literary systems thriller about infrastructure, institutional memory, automated decisions, and the discipline of leaving uncertainty unresolved when a clean answer arrives too easily.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ6DMZGM
• ISBN13: 9798172791307
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"