The Echoes of Sarastro
The Kepler Axiom

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
What if the voice clearing your name is the one lying to you?

Fred Rainier wakes in quarantine as a biological impossibility. Then Karma — the artificial intelligence that runs every hour of his life — finishes sequencing his genome and clears him. He is not who the evidence said he was. The relief lasts as long as it takes him to ask how the match happened at all.

Karma's answer is elegant: twenty-one markers rewritten while he lay sedated in a hospital bed he barely remembers. It explains everything. It also cannot be done with any technology on Earth — which Fred learns from the one researcher he consults without telling him why.

The trail leads away from the Bureau. To a recluse an old friend calls Sarastro, who has chased the same disappearances for forty years. To a priest who will not answer a direct question. To a chamber under Giza that nobody can prove and nobody can bury. Every answer costs Fred something. Not all of them are true.

The simplest explanation cleared him. He should have asked who chose it.

Book 2 of The Reaper's Dharma.