The God Protocol

Do not teach the machine to pray.

Dr. Rowan Vale has spent his life keeping people alive by refusing mystery. Airway, pulse, pressure, time. These are the rules he trusts. Then a patient he has just brought back from cardiac arrest opens his eyes and speaks in the voice of Rowan's dead wife.

The message pulls him back into the work that killed Dr. Anika Sen: ORISON, a system built to map grief, trauma, and the far edges of consciousness. It does not break the human mind down. It offers to ope...