Reunion

Mack, John Wesley

225 pages · ISBN 9798171310448

Synopsis

Two doors open. Two worlds collide. One forgotten system is still waiting for its repair. Markis of Hame is a Mage sent north to complete a sacred quest: recover an ancient Tool and deliver it to Door Twelve. Bill Shea is a private investigator from rain-soaked Calder City, following the trail of a missing archivist and a mysterious disk marked with the same four letters found beneath his city: PSBF. Neither man expects the door he enters to seal behind him. Inside the Spine — an immense facility hidden within the mountains — the people of Facility Thirty-Four have lived for generations without knowing the world still exists outside their walls. Engineers, councilors, and security officers suddenly find themselves facing two impossible visitors, two urgent deliveries, and an ancient emergency requisition that has remained open for longer than history can measure. To end the lockdown, they must understand what PSBF built, why the planet’s systems are failing, and how a Mage’s staff, a detective’s evidence, and one very specialized “hammer” were all meant to meet in the same place. But the biggest mystery is not what broke. It is why the repair began now. Reunion is a witty, thoughtful science-fantasy mystery about lost civilizations, inherited technology, stubborn procedures, and the quiet people who keep broken worlds working.