What if the world has been responding to you all along - and you just weren't ready to hear it?
Nadia Vasquez has engineered her life to be unbreakable. Thirty-six, precise, brilliant at her work - she designs buildings that hold under the worst conditions the earth can produce. Her personal life runs the same way. Nothing unaccounted for. Nothing left exposed. Nothing needed that she cannot provide for herself.
Then her dead mother calls.
Then a billboard goes blank in a way it shouldn't. Then her data - at two independent sites, with two different teams - produces the same impossible signature. The anomalies are specific. They are consistent. And the more Nadia documents them, the more she understands: this is not a malfunction. This is transmission.
Something has been broadcasting from inside her for seven years. The world has been reflecting it back the entire time. And now, for seventeen days, she is finally in a condition to receive what it has been trying to show her.
It leads somewhere she did not expect. It leads to herself.