When an alien ship appears in Earth's orbit-silent, unprovoked, and unyielding-the world spirals into chaos.
A remote landing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula draws a hastily assembled team of scientists, soldiers, and government operatives to make first contact. Among them: Ryan Callen, a reclusive southern farmer with a past no one can quite trace, and Jade Davenport, a brilliant but skeptical researcher caught between logic and intuition.
But diplomacy isn't easy when the visitors say almost nothing at all-and seem to know everything about us.
As pressure mounts globally, divisions fracture the team from within. Trust erodes. Protests ignite. And then... a single feather is offered.
The true question isn't what they are.
It's why they came.
And who, exactly, is being tested.
A slow-burn sci-fi thriller with echoes of Arrival, Nope, and Children of Men, The Reciprocal is a haunting look at humanity's place in the food chain-and the horror when the roles are reversed...