A body is found tethered to the hull of Kepler Station: a maintenance technician named Rael Doss, EVA suit intact, no visible trauma - and mathematics burned into his open eyes.
Yara Osei is a records investigator, not a detective. Her job is to build formal records of institutional events, not to solve murders. But when the mathematics in Rael Doss's eyes turns out to be a section of a twelve-thousand-year message from an intelligence outside human space, her investigation becomes something no human institution has faced before.
Kepler Station has secrets. So does the Colonial Authority. And the message - buried for almost two centuries by a vote no one was supposed to know about - is more patient than either of them.
The Kepler Anomaly is the first book in The Cassini Record, a five-book science fiction series about first contact, institutional suppression, and the power of a formal record that refuses to be erased.
"The record is the action. The action has no known limit."