WE SEE YOU. Three words, carried across the solar system in a language older than stars, and humanity's long isolation is over. For three and a half centuries, humanity has listened. Grown vessels drift the harmonic lattice. Operators keep their disciplined stillness. The continuum, vast and patient, keeps its silence. Then, at the edge of the mapped regions, an Empath feels a ripple no instrument can record, and something ancient turns its attention toward the human species. The Fragment does not invade. It does not announce. It watches, it chooses, and in a single transforming act it changes everything - leaving behind three ordinary people marked for what comes next: a trainee with a residue behind her eyes, a soldier of a military no one needed, and a civilian who looked up and felt invited. Beyond the veil wait the Council of Nine, the ancient powers of the Sector, a mentor race with an ultimatum, and a gift no one will explain, coveted by everyone who already knows what it is. A meditative first-contact epic for readers of Arrival, Solaris, and Becky Chambers, where the universe is not an enemy to be fought, but a presence learning your name. The Harmonic Age is over. The Fragment Era has begun. Book One of The Harmonic Universe.
