In a bunker beneath shattered New York, 14-year-old hacker Lane decrypted a classified war file accidentally intercepted. What she found matched every chapter of Above Scorched Skies book by Zachary S. Davis —including events yet to happen. At first, she dismissed it as fiction, but when drones fell from the sky and satellites blinked out, fear gripped her. Governments hunted the source, but Lane knew—this wasn’t prediction; it was orchestration. She coded one final message and vanished into the darknet: “The war was never ours.” As nations braced for collapse, the question remained—who really authored the future, and why?