The Janus Guard

In the heart of Bletchley Park, the secret nerve center of the Allied war effort, Arthur Vance is a brilliant but disgraced mathematician, an outcast tasked with the impossible: finding patterns in the meaningless static of the North Atlantic. But in that chaos, he discovers something that should not exist: a perfect, structured signal, a message encoded with a key that defies all known science.

His superiors dismiss it as a German trick. His colleagues call it a delusion. But Arthur, with the help of a sharp, defiant Wren named Ellie Hayes, achieves the impossible and decodes the message. It is not from the Germans. It is a warning from a future that has already been lost, a precise and terrifying prophecy of a V-1 strike on an sleeping, unwarned London.

When his warning is ignored and the prophecy comes true in a flash of fire and death, Arthur is dragged from the shadows into the center of a new, secret war. He is now the keeper of Project Chronos, a desperate, last-ditch effort to use the signal’s impossible knowledge to win the war. But the signal is not just a warning system. It is a power that corrupts, attracting the attention of powerful men who believe they have the right to control history.

Hunted by a ghost assassin from a future he cannot comprehend and opposed by a brilliant zealot hidden within his own project, Arthur must make a choice. Will he use this terrible, god-like power to save his present, even if it means shattering the very fabric of time? Or will the key that unlocks the future be the very thing that destroys it?