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Chris reads numbers for a living and noise for fun.

One night his overkill home lab logs something that should not be in the feed, and the analyst in him cannot let it go: a signal, buried in the static, that decodes into a casting call. A show. A season. And a planet, scheduled, decades out. His planet. His family, top-billed.

Nobody believes him. Not his wife. Not the company. Not the kids who just want their dad to come out of the office. Only Sarge, who reads patterns the way Chris reads people, looks at the data and says the worst thing: that’s not noise.

Then the show comes for Chris first.

Before Subscribe or Die, before the dungeon, before three kids from Puyallup broke the most-watched apocalypse in the galaxy, their father went into his office one night and did not come out. This is where he went. This is what it cost. And this is the door he left unlatched.

A standalone prequel to The Broadcast. You can start here or read it after Book One. Same world, same fine-print apocalypse, told by the one analytics-brained, sarcastic, in-over-his-head dad who saw it coming and got cast first.