The Sleeper Protocol

He was supposed to wake up in a hospital. He woke up in the Dark Ages.

Arthur fell asleep in the twenty-first century. He opens his eyes three hundred years later in a village that has never heard of electricity, medicine, or government - only the machines his own era left behind, still humming, half-buried, in a nobleman's basement.

To Oakhaven, he's a miracle. A "Sleeper." Maybe a prophet. To Arthur, he's just a man who remembers how a pulley works, in a world that has forgotten what a lever is for.

But the moment his half-remembered engineering flips a switch that hasn't been thrown in three centuries, the old world answers back. A signal claws its way out of a dying relay tower - and something vast, patient, and utterly inhuman is listening on the other end. It has been waiting a very long time for someone with his exact genetic signature to come home.

Now Arthur has two ways to survive what's coming, and neither one is safe. He can keep playing the miracle-worker the village needs him to be, and hope the lie holds. Or he can tell an entire civilization that everything they hold sacred is a busted circuit board - and gamble that they won't decide an Overseer burns just as well as any false god.

THE SLEEPER PROTOCOL is a genre-blending descent into a world where lost technology has calcified into religion, and the one man who can tell the difference between a miracle and a machine might not be able to save either.

For readers who love:
- Quiet apocalypses and civilizations rebuilding from the ashes
- Reluctant "chosen ones" who'd rather fix the pump than rule the kingdom
- Science so far beyond the world's reach that it looks exactly like magic
- Slow-burn mysteries about what really happened to the old world

The watch on his wrist stopped the night everything ended. It's about to start ticking again.