The Echo of Frozen Glass

Ebook

The map is not the territory—but for Edward Vance, the map is a prison.

Investigator Edward Vance is a man hollowed out by grief and haunted by the smoke of a fire that claimed everything. When a lead researcher vanishes from a locked suite inside the impenetrable Blackwood Sanitarium, Vance is the only one who can navigate the gothic fortress of stone and steel. But as an Alaskan storm buries the mountain in white ash, Vance realizes he isn't there to find a missing woman—he's there to be harvested.

Deep beneath the ice, a pulsating heart of silver wire screams for a host, and the line between Vance's traumatic memories and the facility's "neural-mapping" begins to dissolve. Trapped in a labyrinth where the walls bleed information and his own mind is being rewritten, Vance must choose: surrender to the "Harmony" of a digital afterlife, or burn the map and everyone connected to it.

If your mind is the ultimate weapon, what happens when someone else holds the trigger?