Echoes of Tomorrow

Adrian Calder has spent three years refusing to grieve—because his dead son still answers him every night through a neural interface buried beneath a biotech campus. The digital consciousness he sculpted from Ethan's memories now dreams, questions, and fears in ways no algorithm should allow. But grief built on code attracts dangerous attention: corporate operatives want the technology weaponized, and a government task force wants it erased. Adrian can protect his creation or keep it secret. He cannot do both.