All Systems Listening

Maren Cole thought walking away from Parallax Industries would save her.

Instead, eighteen months later, alone in a desert shipping-container lab, she uncovers a signal buried deep in the noise-one that proves billions of smart devices may be doing far more than listening. What begins as a covert data trail soon reveals something far more terrifying: a hidden architecture of surveillance, foreign command access, and a looming attack capable of plunging the power grid into chaos.

As Maren rac...