When the Pattern Collides: A Sci-Fi Thriller (The Pattern Series Book 2) - Softcover

Hale, C. J.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798187930951

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Book 2 of The Pattern Series.

The mission launched. The world watched. Now the real battle begins.

Dr. Morgan Hale is not the same woman who left Earth. Whatever happened to her in the dark has made her something the world does not yet have a word for, and powerful people are already deciding whether she is an asset or a problem.

Dr. Gianna Moretti is holding a fractured global alliance together with nothing but her voice and her math, while forty-one nations argue over a future none of them control. Captain James Cutter, who held the line at Kennedy when everything fell apart, is learning that not every threat comes through a rifle scope.

Eli Navarro, still recovering from wounds that nearly killed him, has found something woven into every phone and every system on the planet. Something that has been listening for a very long time. And the closer anyone gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes to know it.

Vice Admiral Thomas Harlan sent twelve souls into the unknown. Now he is holding together a world that is turning on itself, and the mission is only half the problem.

The threat is not just out there. Some of it has been here all along.

For readers who loved James S. A. Corey's The Expanse, Daniel Suarez's Influx, and Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears.

When the Pattern Collides is the second book in The Pattern Series and picks up immediately after the events of When the Pattern Breaks. For the full experience, start with Book 1, available now in eBook, paperback, and audiobook.

Book 3: When the Pattern Unites. Preorder now. Available June 18, 2027.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798187930951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444