Mystery

A corporate crisis management consultant hired to contain the PR fallout of a mysterious mass-resignation event at a powerful financial firm — in which 31 employees vanished from their offices in a single night, leaving behind their phones, wallets, shoes, and handwritten letters of resignation that all say exactly the same thing — discovers that the firm has been preparing for this for years. And that the 31 employees did not leave. They arrived.
In an unnamed civilization before recorded history, a scribe who has devoted her life to copying the sacred creation texts realizes they contain a single error — the same error, in every version, in every temple — that changes the meaning of the entire text from a story of origin into a set of instructions for forgetting.
When archaeologist Dr. Maya Khalil discovers encrypted data proving her disgraced father was right about chambers beneath the Giza pyramids, she assembles a team for an illegal excavation — and finds, 648 meters below the desert, not a tomb but a prison. Ancient entities sealed for 38,000 years are waking, and humanity’s DNA carries programming that will compel everyone to come home for the harvest.
When a true crime podcaster investigating cold cases in rural Louisiana stumbles upon a pattern of disappearances linked to a single parish, she discovers a centuries-old network hiding in plain sight — and they know she’s found them.
A radio astronomer detects a signal from deep space that’s a perfect recording of Earth’s first television broadcast—except it includes footage from tomorrow’s news, and the broadcast is coming from a dead planet.
A forensic linguist hired to authenticate a trove of documents recovered from a demolished Cold War-era Soviet research facility discovers that the files — allegedly transcripts of interrogation sessions — are written in a language that does not exist, has never existed, and that she can read perfectly.