Echo Drift Book 1: Equilibrium Force

For readers of This Is How You Lose the Time War, Snow Crash, The Left Hand of Darkness, and Severance.

A sapphic slow-burn science fiction thriller blending atmospheric cyberpunk noir, surveillance dystopia, and emotionally grounded speculative fiction.

The world survived the Great Wave. The systems that replaced it may be even more dangerous.

Dana Papadopolis lives off-grid along the fractured Connecticut coastline, hiding from the interconnected surveillance networks she once helped build. A former Marine and neurofield architect, she has spent years avoiding the federal systems that monitor movement, behavior, memory, and human connection.

Then a body appears in the dunes.

The discovery pulls Dana into the orbit of Grace Wilson, a trauma physician trying to hold together the people still left behind in a collapsing world. What begins as wary proximity slowly deepens into something far more trust, intimacy, and the possibility of being truly seen.

But strange signal anomalies, buried government experiments, and emerging artificial intelligence systems are beginning to converge around Dana, threatening not only her survival, but the fragile connection growing between them.

Echo Equilibrium Force is the first novel in a character-driven sapphic science fiction series exploring memory, surveillance, identity, emotional connection, and what remains human at the edge of technological singularity.

Perfect for readers of atmospheric sci-fi, queer speculative fiction, slow-burn WLW romance, AI-driven dystopian fiction, and cerebral near-future noir.