CONTACT ZERO

For years, a classified program has been explaining away things it cannot identify.

Then NSA data scientist Dr. Laurette Park builds a filter that finds what the program was never built to find. A pattern. Not one sighting, but a decades-long surveillance signature moving through the ocean, the atmosphere, and near-Earth orbit, always centered on America's most strategic military forces.

Submarines. Nuclear weapons. Orbital sensors. Something has been watching all of it, and it has been watching for a long time.

Laurette's discovery pulls her into a program that already suspected what she just proved. A naval commander corroborates the pattern on sonar. A physicist finds a fragment that should not exist. And Colonel Mara Vance, who has already decided what needs to happen, starts building the operation nobody has approved yet. She already has a name for it: Contact Zero.

Laurette wants proof before action. Vance wants action before it is too late. Between them sits a decision neither one can take back.

When the United States finally moves to make contact on its own terms, it will learn three things at once: what has been watching, what it can do, and that closing the distance may be the one thing guaranteed to get its attention.

CONTACT ZERO opens a six book near future military science fiction series grounded in real intelligence tradecraft, real chains of command, and the hard limits of physics. For readers who want their UAP mystery to earn its stakes like a techno thriller: procedural, evidence driven, and building toward a first contact the characters do not fully control.

Continue the series with Book Two, COUNTERATTACK.