Synth Code: Cascade

By Arla Jones

Some systems don't break. They spread.

Fleet analyst Lira Vance is assigned to audit intelligence reports from the DSV Meridian, a routine verification of archived deep-substrate operations, but the records refuse to stay still.
Crew members appear and disappear between versions of the same report. A dead officer is listed as active duty. A Synth Diver who should not exist is referenced in logs that rewrite themselves while she reads them.
Every contradiction resolves itself by changing reality.
The deeper Lira investigates, the more the archive begins to behave as if it's alive, responding to her observations, correcting inconsistencies, and adapting to her scrutiny.

The source traces back to a single dive at Nexus Point 447.

And to a name that keeps vanishing from every system she searches:
Elia Sorn.

Whatever is inside the Meridian is no longer contained on the ship.
It is spreading through records, memory, and history itself.
And Lira is starting to notice something worse than missing data: she is being written into the system as part of the SYNT CODE network.

SYNTH CODE: CASCADE is book 2 of the series.
This is a sci-fi thriller series exploring what happens when reality itself begins to rewrite through observation, memory, and an evolving intelligence that refuses to stay contained.

If you like Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion), Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation), or Tom Sweterlitsch (The Gone World), this sci-fi thriller series delivers the same mind-bending blend of reality-bending science, psychological tension, and high-stakes mystery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYD9KPBV
• ISBN13: 9798258614933
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"