Arcadian Drive by William Ubagan / FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery

Arcadian Drive

By William Ubagan

Investigative journalist Helen Cruz wakes in a Manila hospital with shattered memories after surviving a deadly car crash on a rain soaked highway. Haunted by fragments of forgotten conversations and hunted by unknown assassins, Helen soon discovers that the accident was no coincidence.

Before the crash, Helen had been investigating the murder of reclusive inventor Ernesto Valmoria, a brilliant engineer who claimed to have created the impossible: an engine free vehicle powered by a revolutionary system known as the Arcadian Drive. But Ernesto’s invention threatens far more than the global energy industry. Hidden beneath the technology lies a terrifying secret capable of altering memory, consciousness, and the future of humanity itself.

As Helen pieces together her lost past alongside seminar speaker and scientist Adrian Vega, they uncover the existence of the Consortium, a powerful shadow organization willing to kill to control the Arcadian technology. Pursued across Manila and the storm battered coastlines of Bataan, Helen realizes the conspiracy reaches deeper than corruption and murder. It reaches into her own mind.

With memories returning in dangerous fragments, Helen must confront the truth about her connection to the Arcadian Drive and the mysterious Lucien Vale, the enigmatic man who may be both her greatest enemy and her only hope. As governments, corporations, and hidden factions close in, Helen faces an impossible choice between exposing the truth or destroying a discovery that could reshape civilization forever.

Arcadian Drive is a gripping science thriller filled with conspiracy, suspense, betrayal, and emotional sacrifice, where the line between technology and humanity begins to disappear.