Finn Miller built the backdoor. Every phone and router on Earth carries a quantum key he designed for the NSA, and the men holding it are using it to buy senators and move people like cargo. He has the proof. The agency has his name.
He's slipping out the back of a New York building, agents in the stairwell above him, when he finds a woman sobbing in the alley. Her name is Elara. She's a priestess from another world, and a chaos mage has burned a compulsion into her find the most powerful technomancer on Earth and bring him back.
Finn thinks a spell might be a signal. Signals can be jammed.
What he learns is that magic and quantum mechanics are the same force, studied from opposite ends. The mage who sent Elara wants that force in hands that obey him. And Elara can't tell whether what she feels for Finn is hers or the spell's.
Book 1 of Technomancer. Science fantasy with a surveillance thriller running through it, for adult readers. See the content note.
From the Technomancer is dark science fantasy for adults. Elara's story begins with captivity and a sexual assault, which drives her arc. The book also includes coercive magic, human trafficking as a plot element, and violence.
Charlie Forêt blends hard science fiction, fantasy, and interesting human characters and relationships to tell stories as complex as the human condition can be. His unique blend of science fact, fantasy, and fiction, physical and emotional relationships, and intriguing plot lines has won him online recognition as a “Best New Author”.
Charlie has traveled the world, lived on three continents, worked as an engineer, a computer scientist, and as a manager in multiple companies. All of his life experience makes its way into his stories.