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After the Great Wave shattered networks and governments, the world rebuilt itself from silence and salvage. Along the fractured coasts of the Americas, Dana Papadopolis-former Marine, neurofield architect, and fugitive from her own past-moves from port to port, repairing what she can, hiding when she must. She doesn't talk about York Lab or the signal that brought cities down. In truth, she barely talks at all. When a late-summer bar fight pulls a young doctor named Grace Wilson into her orbit, the encounter should have ended with first aid and distance. Instead, it unravels everything Dana has tried to bury. A murdered woman surfaces in the dunes. A detective starts asking the wrong questions. Old signal traces flicker across the coastal mesh-ghosts from the experiment that destroyed York. As federal watchers close in, Dana is forced back into motion-through storms, across borders, and into a fragile alliance with Grace that neither understands. What begins as survival becomes connection; what feels like chance may already be design. Set in a near-future America haunted by collapse, Echo Drift: Equilibrium Force fuses noir intimacy with speculative science. It's the story of two women drawn together by instinct and consequence; of memory as both weapon and salvation; and of a quiet world still reverberating with the hum of what it tried-and failed-to erase. The first novel in the Echo Drift saga begins not with revelation, but with a whisper-the moment the past exhales, and the world starts listening back.

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Jules Mills is a writer, researcher, and creative founder whose work bridges science, emotion, and storytelling at the edge of singularity. Through her imprint, Susurrus LLC, she builds a universe where quiet ideas evolve into bold futures-stories that blend speculative science with intimate human connection. Her debut near-future series, Echo Drift, unfolds across twelve novels that merge quantum science, nanotechnology, and emotional resonance into a deeply human narrative. Mills describes the series as ""future noir with a soul""-a meditation on love, leadership, and the fragile balance between control and connection. Before turning to fiction full-time, Jules built a career in leadership and organizational development. Spanning industries from submarines to supply chains to space, her professional journey informs the technical precision and emotional authenticity woven through her storytelling. Her doctoral research examines the underrepresentation of women in senior leadership roles across male-majority and gender-parity industries such as shipbuilding, education, and technical services. That research aligns closely with the emotional architecture of Echo Drift-both seek to understand how people navigate power, identity, and belonging within complex systems. Every book in the Echo Drift series is both a story and a philosophical experiment-testing the boundaries of what it means to feel, to remember, and to remain human in an age of adaptive intelligence. Beyond her fiction and scholarship, Jules Mills is a passionate advocate for inclusive storytelling and women's leadership. She believes that representation-whether in boardrooms, classrooms, or the pages of speculative fiction-is a form of activism. Her work with Susurrus LLC extends beyond books to mentorship, public speaking, and creative development. For Mills, storytelling is more than invention-it's restoration. Each novel, essay, and study traces the same question: How do we remain human in systems designed to forget us? Her answer, woven through every line of Echo Drift, is simple and defiant: We remember. We connect. And through that connection, we evolve. Mills is a lifelong storyteller and researcher but gains inspiration from her wife, children, and grandchildren, whose encouragement fuels every page she writes. Whether at her desk surrounded by metrics and research notes or watching the tide shift along the coasts that inspired her series, she continues to explore the spaces where science meets spirit, and innovation and intimacy intertwine.

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