An anomaly in the data. A signal that should not exist. And 1,396 objects in orbit above every major city on Earth.

When radio astronomer Dr. Naomi Chen detects an impossible pattern buried in satellite carrier signals, she uncovers a truth that will shatter every assumption humanity holds about its place in the universe: we have been watched. For thirty-four years, an alien intelligence has been conducting the most comprehensive surveillance operation in history, mapping not just our technology and communications, but the collective patterns of human thought itself.

As governments fracture, militaries mobilize, and civil society buckles under the weight of a violation no one can process, Naomi and a small international task force race to understand what the objects want before the world tears itself apart trying to fight what it cannot defeat.

But the real question is not what the objects are doing. It is what their study reveals about us, about human consciousness, about collective intelligence, and about whether a species that has been modeled and predicted for three decades can still do the one thing no model can contain:

Choose.

ALIEN INVASION: DAY ZERO is a hard science fiction thriller in the tradition of Liu Cixin, Andy Weir, and Michael Crichton, a story about first contact that is really about what it means to be human in a universe that is, at last, paying attention.

Book One of the Quiet Sky Series.