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The Silent Lattice: A Hard Science Fiction Mystery Thriller (Book 2)
Paperback
Series: The Erasure Protocol Trilogy, Book 2
Publisher: Jason Thomson
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
They thought they had uncovered humanity's oldest secret. They were only standing at the first door.
One year after the impossible discovery beneath Tau Ceti e, exoplanet archaeologist Dr. Mara Ellison joins humanity's most ambitious scientific expedition. A map hidden within the ancient ruins points to thirty-seven distant worlds-each bearing the unmistakable signature of a civilization that should never have existed.
Each world was settled by humans.
Each civilization flourished.
And each one vanished without war, catastrophe, or collapse.
As Mara and the crew of the Aletheia journey across the darkness between the stars, every new discovery shatters another certainty. Entire cities have been methodically dismantled. Technologies of unimaginable sophistication have been carefully cataloged and preserved. Vast asteroid fields hint at messages written across millions of years. Nothing was abandoned.
Everything was finished.
But someone has been quietly manipulating the search from the very beginning.
Old allies become uncertain. Hidden agendas emerge. An artificial intelligence begins asking questions no machine should ever think to ask. And with every world they investigate, the evidence points toward a terrifying conclusion: thirty-seven independent civilizations all made the same impossible choice.
Not because they failed.
Because they knew something.
Now humanity is following the same path.
Perfect for readers who love scientifically grounded thrillers filled with breathtaking discoveries, intricate mysteries, and relentless twists, The Silent Lattice expands the astonishing universe of The Erasure Protocol Trilogy, where every answer uncovers a deeper mystery-and the greatest danger may not be what humanity finds among the stars, but what has been waiting for humanity to find it.
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