The Horizon Line

In a world of total connectivity, the silence is a death sentence. Kaelen Thorne is a god of the new age, a Synapse Architect who helped design the very neural lace that links a million minds into a perfect, efficient symphony. But the music has begun to curdle. When a routine update triggers a "Synaptic Storm, " the city's population transforms into a predatory hive-mind, their humanity burned away to leave only mindless, synchronized aggression.
Trapped on the Aurelian, a high-speed mag-lev train hurtling through a desolate wasteland, Kaelen must protect his daughter-one of the few "clean" humans left-from the nightmare he helped create. As the infected claw through the steel bulkheads and the train's automated systems begin to fail, Kaelen faces an impossible choice: save the few survivors on board, or execute a "Zero-Point" broadcast that will silence the hive forever-at the cost of millions of lives.
Beyond the horizon lies the only hope for a future without wires, but the signal is already in their heads. Can Kaelen outrun the ghosts of his own creation, or is the "Final Carriage" already pulling them into the dark?