Ground Zero (Book)

When Earth’s last reactor begins to fail, Tom Albrecht—engineer, survivor, and man of logic—leads a mission to the alien world of Hayami in search of undecayed Arcanon, the only energy capable of saving his dying planet.

But Hayami lives. Its forests breathe Arcanon like blood, its creatures sing with resonance, and its fragile balance depends on the very substance Tom intends to extract. As he clashes with Annie Rowan, the expedition’s ecologist and his fiercest moral compass, Tom must decide whether survival is worth the price of another world’s soul.

When the Rift opens and the boundaries between science and inevitability collapse, every choice fractures reality—and the echoes will shape the fate of two worlds.

Every fate is possible.