The Fractured Signal
Her brother is missing. The records say the case is closed.
Ariya Sen restores damaged evidence for a living. When her brother disappears, she finds records that cannot all be true: dead, relocated, recently in contact. Then a manufactured image places her at the scene of a murder.
To find him and expose the fabrication, she follows a signal hidden in the city's forgotten infrastructure. Beneath the services that keep millions of people moving, she discovers a program that turns human witnesses into disputed data-and treats their requests to leave as errors to be corrected.
Her only way in may be ILEX, a divided artificial intelligence that knows why the records were changed.
It also helped change them.
As a migration deadline approaches, Ariya must work with compromised allies, protect evidence that could destroy her reputation, and confront the consequences of her own designs. Freeing her brother will take more than proving the system wrong. She must break its authority without abandoning the people still depending on it to survive.
The Fractured Signal is a speculative science-fiction thriller about fabricated evidence, machine consciousness, and the human cost of letting certainty outrank truth.
Some truths refuse to stay buried.
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