The Characters

Protagonist

Wren Fontaine

Orbital Physicist · University of Vermont

Wren Fontaine is thirty-eight years old and has spent her career studying the relationship between orbital mechanics and geological events — a field narrow enough that her department chair describes her work as “physics for archaeologists who don’t know they need a physicist.” She works alone. She is methodical about data and impulsive about conclusions, which has cost her two grants and one marriage and produced three papers that nobody read until they suddenly mattered enormously. She is in Vermont in November 2023, working in a farmhouse she rents because the rent is low and the light is good, when she notices something wrong with the numbers at Göbekli Tepe.

Expertise	Orbital mechanics, precession cycles, archaeoastronomy, geophysical resonance
Setting	Vermont · 2023 · Göbekli Tepe, Carnac, Yonaguni, Antarctic shelf
Method	The geometry doesn’t lie. If the numbers say the site is a component, it’s a component.
Weakness	She understands what things are before she understands what they do. The gap between those two is where the danger lives.
Arc	Four books. She finds the system, maps it, completes it, and activates it. She always knew she would.