The Long Silence-Book One
A routine courier assignment leads Kellan Rook into
a mystery that reaches far beyond the known boundaries
of human exploration.
Kellan Rook has spent most of his life trying to keep
his ship flying and his problems manageable. Then a
private contract offers enough money to solve both.
The destination is Hushpoint Outpost in the Sable
Reach—a region where ships have disappeared and
ordinary navigation no longer behaves as expected.
The cargo is sealed scientific equipment.
It is not supposed to be opened.
The job no one wanted.
The payment is too good. The destination is too dangerous.
And the cargo is something nobody will explain.
Kellan accepts the contract because the alternative is
losing the Wayward. What begins as a simple delivery
quickly becomes something else when the sealed container
begins responding to him.
The object speaks his name.
Then it tells him to open it.
The Silence is not simply a place where
communications disappear.
Something has been waiting in the dark.
The region known as the Silence is not simply empty space.
Ships lose contact. Navigation systems behave strangely.
Signals appear where they should not exist.
Mara Vale knows more about the phenomenon than she is
willing to reveal. The research team that recovered the
strange object discovered evidence that the disturbances
may not be random.
Kellan soon discovers that the object reacts to him in a
way it never reacted to the researchers who studied it.
And the deeper he travels into the recovery network,
the more closely the mystery becomes tied to his own past.
She knows more than she says.
Mara is the person who brings Kellan the job, the cargo,
and the first warnings about what lies beyond the known
routes.
She was part of the recovery team that encountered the
mysterious object and understands why the Regime would
rather see it disappear.
But Mara has another reason for being interested in
Kellan Rook—and the reason becomes increasingly difficult
to hide as the journey continues.
The disappearance of his father was not what Kellan believed.
Kellan has spent years accepting the official explanation
for the disappearance of his father, Adrian Rook.
The evidence surrounding the Aster Vale begins to challenge
that explanation. Records place the vessel near the
Silence, and the recovery network contains information
connected to Kellan’s childhood.
The closer Kellan comes to the truth, the harder it becomes
to separate the mystery of the Silence from the history of
his own family.
The past is not finished with Kellan Rook.
Every answer reveals another question.
As Kellan follows the evidence, the people around him
become part of a much larger story.
The Missing Father
Kellan’s search for answers about the Aster Vale
ultimately brings him face to face with a truth
about his father’s fate that he never expected.
The Scientist
Marrow possesses knowledge of the Silence and
Project Threshold that becomes increasingly
important as the investigation reaches its
deepest layers.
Something Beyond Human Control
The recovery network contains information,
memories, and capabilities that force Kellan
to question what the Silence actually is.
Thirty-four years ago, someone tried to make contact.
Near the end of Book One, Kellan learns that Project
Threshold was terminated thirty-four years earlier after
attempting to establish direct contact with the source
of the Silence.
The project did not simply fail.
It received an answer.
“It said we had already been found.”
The Long Silence-Book One
The Long Silence-Book Two
Kellan Rook has uncovered the truth about his father’s
disappearance, the ancient recovery network, and the
experiments that shaped his childhood.
But the greatest mystery remains unanswered.
Thirty-four years ago, Project Threshold attempted to
contact the source of the Silence.
Something answered.
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