For sixteen years, we've never forgotten the number one rule: one look into their eyes, and it's all over.

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In 2026 the gorgons drifted silently from the clouds: pale, telepathic nightmares whose gaze freezes prey in place so they can be eaten alive. Sixteen years later, 85 percent of humanity is gone. The survivors huddle in fortified military blockades, moving only in silence, never daring to look.

Sergeant Cameron “Jet” Shipley and his younger brother Rutty serve in one such outpost in Clarksville, Tennessee. Orphaned by the invasion, the brothers have buried family, friends, and most of their faith in anything beyond the next breath. When a new recruit arrives carrying proof of a hidden alien-wrought weapon: an amulet that might finally pierce the gorgons’ invulnerability, Jet is ordered on a near-suicidal mission to implant a tracker on a live specimen. The operation collapses in blood and betrayal.

As Jet uncovers a conspiracy that has deliberately buried humanity’s best hope for years, trust fractures inside the ranks. Loyalties snap. The true enemy may no longer be the monsters outside, but the leaders who decided survival required sacrificing the truth. Jet must choose: obey the chain of command that has kept them alive, or risk everything on the chance that one shard of alien power, a ragged found family of fighters, and the unbreakable bond between two brothers can shatter the gaze that holds Earth in its grip.

Relentless, cinematic, and steeped in the raw cost of resistance, Dissonance Volume I: Reality launches a saga where every heartbeat could be the last.