John W. Taggart
Series
Eleven ancient stone sites. One planetary defense system. One physicist who figures out what the switch does — and presses it anyway.
Explore the SeriesThe Series
The Sequence Series follows Wren Fontaine — orbital physicist, accidental archaeologist, and the person who recognizes that eleven ancient stone sites are not monuments, not calendars, not temples. They are components. They are a system. And the system has a function that no one on Earth has activated in twelve thousand years — until now.
The Architecture
The Sequence Series runs parallel to The Protocol Series and The Directive Series. Three protagonists. Three angles on the same hidden truth. What Wren activates, Daniel has been tracking in the data. What Aimee was standing over in Antarctica was one of the eleven nodes. The reader who holds all three sees what none of them can.
Protocol · Directive · Sequence
The Eleven Nodes
The Complete Series
Book I of IV · The Sequence Series
The orbital geometry was wrong for a monument. Right for something else entirely.
Wren Fontaine is in Vermont, mapping the precession of the Draco constellation against the orientation of eleven megalithic sites, when she realizes the sites are not aligned to the stars as they appear today. They are aligned to the stars as they appeared twelve thousand years ago — and to a specific date within that window. Every site. The same date. Working backward from the geometry tells her what the system was designed to do. Working forward tells her it's almost ready to do it again.
Book II of IV
The resonance frequency has been changing. Not randomly. Wren finds the pattern in forty years of atmospheric data and understands what it means for the eleventh node.
Coming 2028Book III of IV
The last time the system was active, the geomagnetic field reversed. The builders knew this. They designed for it. Wren figures out why forty-one thousand years before the deadline.
Coming 2029Book IV of IV
The final volume. The eleventh node is found. The system is complete. Wren presses the switch knowing exactly what it does and exactly what it costs. She does it anyway.
Coming 2030The Protagonist
Orbital Physicist · University of Vermont
Wren Fontaine is thirty-eight years old and has spent her career studying the relationship between orbital mechanics and geological events — a field narrow enough that her department chair describes her work as "physics for archaeologists who don't know they need a physicist." She works alone. She is methodical about data and impulsive about conclusions, which has cost her two grants and one marriage and produced three papers that nobody read until they suddenly mattered enormously. She is in Vermont in November 2023, working in a farmhouse she rents because the rent is low and the light is good, when she notices something wrong with the numbers at Gobekli Tepe.
The Connected Universe
The Sequence Series launches in 2027 alongside The Directive Series. By then, Protocol readers already know what the nodes are. Watching Wren discover them for the first time — and activate the system without fully understanding what she's doing — is the experience the universe was built to create.
Read the Sequence Series alone and the story resolves completely. Read it with Protocol and Directive and the universe opens.
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Protocol
Coming 2027
Directive
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