by Howie Carr
Dr. Sarah Chen stands in her laboratory, watching equations that once made perfect sense dissolve into chaos. The theoretical physics that built her career now feels like quicksand beneath her feet. Her research into quantum mechanics has led her somewhere she never expected to go. The mathematics point toward conclusions that challenge everything she believed about the nature of reality. Her colleagues dismiss her findings. Her department chair threatens to pull her funding. Her marriage strains under the weight of her obsession with proving what others call impossible. Sarah must choose between the safe harbor of accepted science and the dangerous waters of discovery. She faces a question that will define not just her career but her understanding of existence itself. Can she trust what the numbers tell her even when they contradict everything she thought she knew about the universe?
Genres: science-fiction, thriller, physics, academic
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: academic-obsession, unreliable-narrator
Hardcover · Contemporary Pub Co of Raleigh