He built a digital heaven. Now, he must stop it from becoming hell on Earth.
Dr. Ronald Wyane was the genius behind the Rebirth Project—a quantum leap that promised to end human suffering by uploading consciousness to a perfect digital world. But a catastrophic failure buried his work in blood and scandal, leaving him a disgraced and broken man.
Years later, Wyane is a low-rent private investigator in the rain-slicked, neon-soaked city of Nova Cascadia, drowning his past in cheap whiskey. His self-imposed exile shatters when a former colleague vanishes, leaving behind a single, impossible artifact: a pulsating crystal key connected to his long-dead invention.
The Veil is not gone. It has been found.
Now, Wyane is the target of a shadowy corporation and its army of otherworldly assassins. Hunted through the city’s decaying underbelly and tormented by the screaming echoes of minds trapped in his creation, he is thrust into a deadly race to reclaim his masterpiece. To stop a madman from unleashing a power that can rewrite reality itself, Wyane must confront the devastating truth buried in his own bloodline.
He thought he was building a utopia. He was actually awakening a god.
And he is the only one who can silence it.
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Sebastian Rathod
Sebastian Rathod is a storyteller who finds his greatest inspiration in the spaces where our deepest past meets our most speculative future. A graduate with a degree in Bachelor of Commerce from Gujarat University. Not his academic background but his curiosity in the science and history behind the myths and legends provided the perfect lens to examine the core questions that drive his work: the nature of consciousness, the ethics of technology, and the ancient myths that echo in our modern code.
His journey into writing began with a sprawling, now nine-year (and counting) project “a globe-trotting action-adventure epic”. It was during a moment of creative blockage on that very project that the world of The Shattered Codex erupted into his mind, fully formed and demanding to be written. This novel, with its breakneck pace and philosophical depth, is the result of that explosive creative detour, proving that the best stories often arrive unannounced.
Drawing inspiration from the cyberpunk aesthetics of sprawling, rain-drenched cities, the cosmic questions of theoretical physics, and the philosophical depths of Hindu Vedic texts, Sebastian crafts worlds where technology and the soul are on a collision course.
Beyond the keyboard, Sebastian's greatest adventure and source of joy is his family. He lives with his wife, Jilian, whose unwavering support is the bedrock of his creative pursuits, and their two wonderful children, Brooklyn and Brayden, who are his daily reminder of the future he is writing towards.
The Shattered Codex is his debut novel.
