Backstage Earth

Reality has a maintenance crew—and they never meant for anyone to find the door. Marcus, a methodical hacker with more patience than ambition, stumbles upon a flaw in the operating system of existence itself: a hidden layer beneath everyday life where unseen engineers orchestrate everything from weather to human memory. But his discovery triggers failsafes designed to erase intruders, and the only way to protect someone he cannot lose is to become part of a machine he was never supposed to see.