The Echo Paradox

Private investigator Iris North has learned to distrust official records, corporate explanations and even her own memories. Now a routine mag-line journey leaves her with two incompatible versions of the same moment.

Across Neocite, witnesses remember events that never happened. Streets seem to anticipate futures that have yet to arrive. The fractures Iris uncovered are spreading, and buried inside Quantarc’s systems lies evidence of a new ambition.

The corporation is learning how to choose between possible realities.

Following the echoes through rain-soaked streets and fractured districts, Iris discovers that these glimpses are possibilities, not predictions. Some can still be changed. But every choice carries a cost, and understanding what Quantarc intends means confronting her own connection to the fractures.

She is no longer simply investigating them. She is part of them.

The Echo Paradox is the second novel in The Neocite Files trilogy, continuing the story begun in The Missing Case.