first_edition_
(Sequel to Upside Down)
Two years. One signal. A truth buried beneath the waves.
Luca should have let it go. The ocean took her, the monitors confirmed it, the world mourned. But some losses refuse to stay buried.
In the dead of night, amidst the hum of servers and fractured data, a faint signal pulses through the void, a signature only he would recognize. Coordinates in the middle of the ocean. Impossible. Unreal. Yet real.
Haunted by the memory of her last moments, Luca sets out into the unknown, following a trail that twists between obsession and madness. Every clue leads deeper into Viktor's shadowed empire, and into secrets that were never meant to surface.
The closer he gets, the more the line between life and death, truth and lie, begins to blur. Someone is waiting. Someone who should not exist.
And when the water finally parts, Luca will discover that some things, once lost, can never truly die...