The Eclipse

The road beneath the mountain was never meant to be found.

After surviving the Hive, Liam finally has something dangerously close to a home. Rhea is stable. Owen is safe. Ward is watching the doors. And beneath Dan's mountain, an abandoned train waits on tracks older than the Continuum itself.

Then the train begins to answer.

Mira's torn blanket is more than a keepsake-it carries part of a map. Its silver marks lead to impossible stations, forgotten worlds, and an ancient network of roads that does not measure distance the way ordinary maps do. As Dan works to restore the machine, the group discovers something even more troubling: the strange signals moving through the Old Line may be connected to the disappearances that emptied their world fourteen years earlier.

Every new route brings another question. Who built the Old Line? Why were parts of its map deliberately erased? And if the missing were not simply destroyed, where did they go?

For Liam, the search is complicated by a mystery closer to home. Other versions of him still live in his memories, carrying skills, choices, and relationships he never experienced. As those echoes become easier to reach, Liam must decide how much of another life he can use without allowing it to decide who he becomes.

And somewhere beyond the known roads, the Continuum has begun to notice them.

The Eclipse is Book Two of Zero's Paradox, a character-driven science-fiction mystery about identity, memory, impossible technology, found family, and the difference between reaching a destination and finding your way home.