Inverted Dawn

Some lights only shine at the edges of the dark.

Twenty years after the Last War, the Dawn rules what's left of the world from Divinity City, a city of light built over a crater. At the bottom of the crater is the Zone: twenty million people, no sky, and a masked man with the sun carved upside down in his forehead.

Malcolm Moultrie came home from the war with a scar around his chest and no memory of how he got it. The Dawn gave him faith, a uniform, and Andrea, a scientist who grows orchids and sees something in him he can't. Then the dying High Precept hands him a secret mission: go down into the Zone and bring back his missing son.

He goes armed with a pair of sonic revolvers, a voice in his nervous system, and an implant in his palm that lets him fold through time. Every fold costs him years.

The deeper Malcolm goes, the less the trail makes sense. Every lead ends at the masked man's door. Something is following him through stopped time. And the man who sent him knows things about Andrea that Malcolm will wish he never learned.

For readers of Red Rising and Altered Carbon: a noir about faith, memory, and what a man owes for what he's forgotten.

Inverted Dawn is Book One of The Moultrie Testament.