The Resonance Crossing

by Ronnie Sacco

The Resonance Crossing is the mythic expression of the Living System — a cinematic, emotionally charged story set in Dominia, an authoritarian state where emotional expression is treated as instability, resonance sensitivity is criminalised, and the population is held in place by a vast suppression grid.

Luca Ashbourne has survived by staying invisible. But when a psychic rupture tears through his mind, something dormant wakes — and the world he thought he understood begins to shift.

Drawn by a hum beneath the city, Luca slips into a forbidden district and encounters forces that should not exist — forces that see him, mark him, and pull him toward a conflict far older than Dominia itself.

As he crosses paths with Wakers, Vessants, and Proles, Luca is forced to confront what’s happening to him… and whether he can cross the resonance divide that was never meant to exist.

Mythic, tense, and deeply human, The Resonance Crossing is the emotional, cinematic mirror to The Spiral Protocol — the story of what happens when the system wakes up inside you.

358 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2026

About the author

Ronnie Sacco writes conceptual fiction that moves between myth, technology, and the quiet machinery beneath human behaviour. His work builds the Second Spiral ecosystem — a long‑form narrative architecture where books, doctrine, and worldbuilding interlock across multiple mediums.

He is the author of The Resonance Crossing, the first book in the Spiral Trilogy, and the creator of The Spiral Protocol, a companion work exploring the structural logic of the world.

Ronnie lives on the Gold Coast, Australia, where he develops the Spiral’s expanding framework and publishes through his independent pipeline.
More of the ecosystem lives at The Second Spiral.

Reviews

[Allie L]

DNF at 33%
I'm not going to leave a star rating because I did not finish the book so that wouldn't be fair.
I was invested enough in the story but I got lost in the writing style and things felt overwritten. I feel like I couldn't get to know the characters because they hardly had any dialogue and the descriptions of things didn't make sense to me.
Maybe I'll give it another chance in the future, it just wasn't hitting the spot for me right now :(

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read this ARC!