Book cover of Failsafe by Gabriel C. Negus

DARK SCIENCE-FANTASY · MEMORY · ENTROPY

Failsafe

Would you give everything for a world that will never remember your name?

Across four dying ages of the same fractured reality, four women begin to hear the same impossible call.


Innaue is a sleepless Searcher in Karn, chasing the vanished sister only she remembers. Shurei is an omen-born exile in a city ruled by drought and prophecy. Rima survives beneath a merciless desert sky, carrying the grief of a people history keeps trying to erase. Asthera leads the last remnants of Serris through a thawing world of frost, machines, and impossible ruin.

They do not know each other. They do not understand why their worlds are breaking. But each is haunted by the same force: the Dreamflow, an ancient current of memory that promises preservation, continuity, and salvation from the final dark.

The Guardians call it order.
The faithful call it mercy.
The broken know better.

Because the Dreamflow does not save worlds. It repeats them.

As cities fracture, forgotten histories bleed through the seams of reality, and old powers rise again, the four women are drawn toward a truth older than myth: some systems do not become monstrous because they fail, but because they succeed for too long.

And if life is to mean anything again, someone must pay the price of ending forever.

Failsafe is a dark science-fantasy novel about memory, sacrifice, love, entropy, and the terrible mercy of letting things end.