Trilogy
The Fractured Sky Trilogy
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A three-book techno-thriller about the most dangerous secret of the modern age. The United States, Russia, and China have each secretly recovered a piece of technology that should not exist — salvaged from a craft no human civilization built — and each is racing, against the others and in total secrecy, to turn what it holds into a weapon. The trilogy follows the scientists, spies, journalists and government officials caught inside that race, and the slow, devastating discovery of what the artifacts truly are and what they were built to do.
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Fractured Sky
In 1908, something crossed the sky over Siberia and flattened a thousand square miles of forest without leaving a crater. It was not a meteor. It was the first piece to come down. A century later, physicist Mara Voss catches a flaw in a routine test — a distortion with no right to exist — and is read into the oldest secret her government keeps: a recovered machine that does not break the laws of physics so much as set them quietly aside. Near it, spacetime bends, and time runs at the wrong speed. For decades they have studied it in the dark. Now, over Voss's objection, they have pushed it too far, and a self-sustaining distortion is spreading across the Nevada desert, wider every day, and nothing anyone knows will switch it off. The machine is one piece of three. Moscow holds another, Beijing the third, and no government will trust the others with the truth even now, with a hole opening in the world. Stopping it will take all three artifacts, all three enemies, and a kind of honesty none of them was built for. And the intelligence that made the machine — and let it fall exactly where a young species would find it — is still out there, watching to see what that species does with a second chance it never earned.
Read more »Meridian Sky
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The catastrophe was averted; the secret held. But the artifacts that should have been destroyed weren't, and the fragile understanding that pulled the world back from the brink is already unraveling. A covert American successor program — MERIDIAN — now operates from the same Nevada mesa, holding all three nations' artifacts with no oversight and no authority left to rein it in. The line between protecting the secret and protecting the program has disappeared. A contractor inside MERIDIAN, a former Russian intelligence officer working her own angle, and a man who survived something in the Nevada desert he still can't explain find themselves running from the same machine — as its leadership concludes that the safest version of a secret is one with no witnesses left alive. Meridian Sky asks what happens when the people meant to protect everyone decide the protection applies only to themselves.
Vacant Sky
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It opens with the impossible: across three continents, nuclear missiles arm, launch, and climb into the fractured sky. What caused it is unknown, the people that might have known are either dead or in custody, and the recovered artifacts are moving quietly across the world toward the one scientist who always suspected what they really were. As the survivors of MERIDIAN scatter along the routes out and the governments that spent decades trying to weaponize the discovery scramble to understand what just happened, the trilogy reaches the question buried beneath all of it: not who controls the artifacts, but what they were built to do — and what it means for those working on the programs that spent a generation trying to make a weapon of it. Vacant Sky is where the secret is finally answered, and the answer is nothing anyone was fighting for.
What readers are saying
★★★★★“Superbly written story-telling at its best! Sands keeps you wondering what is coming next!!”
★★★★★“Book 1 was a great read!👏 Excited for the rest of them!”
★★★★★“I dont have words to express, frankly...I’ve been moved, clearly. When art moves you and you dont have words, you just need to close the laptop, walk away and ponder. Words will certainly come. For now, just know that this was incredible.”