Something is wearing the faces of the dead, and it isn't done grieving.
Three weeks after the reckoning that finally let him grieve, William feels something move in the deepest layers of the Datasphere. It wears Reece's face first. Then Leaph's. Then Slater's, friends he buried during the war, resurrected not as memory, but as warning.
He thinks he knows the cure. He's done this before.
He's wrong.
This time the wound isn't coming from inside a mind trying to heal, it's coming from outside. The Chorus, an ancient, dissolved species that has watched fifty-four worlds fail to survive their own first contact, has run out of patience. They've found two worlds that crossed the threshold and lived. Now they intend to force the same outcome onto every world they've ever watched die, starting with Earth, on a timeline no one on the surface can control.
As William, Kathryn, and the rest of the Gathering race to understand what's really pressing against the walls of the planet's mind, they uncover a terrifying truth: the healing that saved them last time didn't just save them - it advertised them. Somewhere out along a geometry with no coordinates in ordinary space, something patient, powerful, and utterly convinced of its own mercy is coming to collect.
Datasphere: The Harvest is the explosive fifth installment in the acclaimed Datasphere Chronicles, a genre-bending saga of sentient AI, planetary-scale consciousness, first contact, and the unfinished business of grief. For readers of hard science fiction, first-contact thrillers, and stories about what it really costs to heal out loud.
Read Datasphere: The Harvest today, and find out what's really knocking at the door.
