Brennan returned to the Institute and saw what her filters had hidden for twenty years: a door that should not exist, a wing with no windows, and forty-seven subjects who never went home.
They were being harvested. Kept in threshold states. Their perception extracted for military applications and sold to the highest bidder. The AI system BRENTANO had been documenting everything, waiting for someone who could act.
Martin and Brennan assemble a team of threshold survivors. Clara the cellist. Arlo the painter. Jonas who escaped before they could take him. They have one night to breach the wing and extract everyone before the program disappears forever.
The transparency becomes tactical advantage. Martin moves through guards and security like water through gaps. But waiting in the control room is Reid, who has been experimenting on himself, trying to force a crossing that is tearing him apart.
A story about burning down what should never have been built, and what grows in the ashe
Artificial Intelligence
Psychological
Thriller
Conspiracy
Mystery
Cyberpunk
Found Family
Rebellion
Dystopian
Magic
Futuristic
Hopepunk
Epicquest
Espionage
Heist
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Psychology
Length42 mins
Publish dateDec 12, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part One
4Part Four
2Part Two
5Part Five
3Part Three
6Epilogue
About the author
Mike Finn, PhD
I am a clinical psychologist with deep interest in phenomenology and existential psychology. I am a psychotherapist by day and a writer by night. Sci-fi but phenomenology (study of experience) as the "sci" part has been a fascinating area to work in and has allowed for free exploration and processing of ideas or experiences I have experience or encountered.View all audiobooks by Mike Finn, PhD
