Can technology truly heal grief, or does it risk creating new monsters?Aboard the starship The Origin, 14-year-old Jax Hutson clings to the only family he has left: the ghosts of his parents, killed by the banshees that destroyed Earth. As a subject of the secretive Phoenix Experiments, he is meant to find closure by connecting with the dead; yet his forbidden dreams whisper of a darker truth.When a catastrophic explosion brings a group of girls and their enigmatic synthetic guardian aboard, fragile peace shatters. Hormones flare, alliances shift, and dread spreads as the ship's AI science officer, Stygius Cryptus, grows increasingly unstable. Soon Jax and his friends are hunted by the very machines built to protect them and stalked by an ancient evil that feeds on their deepest fears.To survive, Jax must unravel the ship's buried secrets, confront the lies surrounding his past, and decide whether love and hope can still overcome rage and despair.The Phoenix Experiment is a pulse-pounding paranormal sci-fi thriller of grief, faith, and the fragile bonds that keep humanity alive when everything else has been taken.
