Echoes From the Cradle

What if human consciousness was never biological to begin with? What if the only way to hear its signal is to break your own mind?Jack Spears was just a child when his innocence was murdered by grief. That loss carved a hole in him that decades of success and the numbing weight of addiction have never filled.Now Jack has built Stonework’s, a secret experimental facility where the impossible happens daily. Harnessing advanced AI and quantum computing, his technology can extract memories from the human mind with perfect clarity. It can force killers to relive their crimes from their victims’ perspectives. And it has unearthed something that should not exist: proof that consciousness is seeded into us at birth, carrying data that predates our existence.Jack believes he is on the verge of understanding what we really are. His fiancée, news anchor Shauna King, believes he is on the verge of an overdose.As Jack and his government partners race to unlock the mind’s full potential, foreign powers are closing in. The battlefield of the future will not be fought with weapons. It will be fought inside the human brain.Meanwhile, FBI Agent Gary Perkins has spent four years haunted by a cold case: the disappearance of Sally Carter. When a microscopic detail in an old photograph cracks the investigation open, Gary uncovers a horror far worse than a single missing woman. A monster spawned from a grotesque carnival legacy. Decades of victims. A family tree rooted in nightmare. And a trail that leads directly to Jack Spears’s door.Two men. Two obsessions. One terrifying convergence.Echoes From The Cradle is a philosophical thriller for readers who want their crime fiction laced with existential dread, where the mystery of what happened to Sally Carter collides with the mystery of what it means to exist.For fans of: Blake Crouch (Dark Matter), Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), and the existential horror of True Detective.Contains: Graphic violence, substance abuse, and intense psychological themes.