When the Pattern Breaks

A Sci-Fi Thriller

It began with a question the world never answered.
In 2004, Navy pilots chased a craft that outflew physics and outmatched technology. The Tic Tac encounter became a piece of modern folklore. Experts debated it. Governments dismissed it. The public moved on.

Dr. Morgan Hale never did.

A brilliant oceanographer who sees order in chaos, Morgan built her career studying the deep places most people prefer to ignore. Patterns are her life. Predictions are her gift. And when a new disturbance rises from the quiet places of the ocean, she recognizes something no one else sees. It is not random. It is not geological. It is not done with them.

Across the world, tensions sharpen. Strange readings ripple through classified channels. Powerful people feel pressure from above and below. A country singer turned President faces storms he cannot name. Scientists, soldiers, and intelligence officers are pulled into a mystery that grows faster than anyone can contain. Every answer leads to another question. Every pattern shifts before it can be solved.

Morgan is the first to grasp the shape of what is coming, even if she cannot yet see its full outline. With her closest allies at her side, she chases fragments of data that refuse to behave, signals that rewrite themselves, and phenomena that thread through the deepest parts of the ocean and the highest reaches of the sky. The more she uncovers, the more the world begins to bend around her.

The danger is not announced. It spreads. Quiet at first. Then everywhere.

When the Pattern Breaks is a near-future military science fiction thriller rooted in real-world mysteries, built around human resilience, and driven by characters fighting to understand the impossible before it overtakes them. It blends the emotional intensity of survival stories with the relentless escalation of a global thriller, all anchored by one persistent truth: patterns always mean something.

You only have to decide how long you can ignore them.

Inspired by the real-world Tic Tac encounter. Based on the idea that the first sign of disaster is never the loudest. It is the fracture line.

This edition collects Acts I–III of When the Pattern Breaks into a single complete novel.
The sequel, When the Pattern Collides, is planned for release in mid to late 2026.