The Quiet Border

De: Thomas DeGan

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In an alternate North America, Indigenous nations united centuries ago to form the Many Nations Alliance, a civilization powered by living technology grown from the land itself. Across the border, the Pale Cities rose from a different choice: descendants of colonists who rejected integration and built an industrial society founded on a carefully constructed version of history. Now the two civilizations watch each other across an ideological divide, and the silence between them is beginning to crack.

Aiyana Waketah is a young Harmonic Engineer completing her initiation at Wakana Station when Tower Seven of the Wind Spine network is destroyed in what appears to be a deliberate attack. Fourteen people die. The evidence points toward Pale City technology, but proving it means walking into the diplomatic summit at Threshold, where the people responsible will be sitting across the table.

As Elder Chogan Grayfeather presents his case to a skeptical world, Doctrine Keeper Julienne Drax is already rewriting the narrative, turning evidence of aggression into a story of MNA instability. Meanwhile, Pale City cultural attaché Elias Harren begins uncovering truths in the archives that contradict everything his society has taught him, and a military officer named Lucian Ford makes a choice that will cost him his life.

When a covert mission into Pale City territory goes wrong, Aiyana is left with a captured teammate, a dead ally, and the knowledge that the weapon she exposed is not being dismantled but multiplied. The Cold War she thought diplomacy could prevent has already begun, and a shadowy faction called the Quiet Choir is playing a longer game than anyone imagined.

The Harmonic Divide is the first book in The Divided Continent series, a speculative fiction saga exploring what happens when two civilizations built on incompatible truths are forced to reckon with each other. It is a story about the cost of silence, the danger of history, and the people caught between worlds that refuse to coexist.