The Latice Structure

The Lattice Cycle · Book One

After the Dimming, the last of humanity lives inside the Aro Spire — every person threaded at birth into the Weave, a lattice that decides what they may see, own, and become. High in the lit Crown live the licensed. Far below, in the dark of the Underrun, live the ones the Spire would rather forget.

Cael Voss is one of the forgotten: unthreaded, unlicensed, invisible by design. But his vanished mother left something buried inside him — an illegal filament, a voice that counts his dreams, and a single line meant to unmake the world he was taught only to survive:

The floor is a lie.

What Cael finds beneath the Spire will cost him everything he has and everything he is — and force a whole civilization to answer the one question it was built never to ask.

A story of grief and machinery, buried inheritance and hard-won family, and the terrible, ordinary courage of asking instead of deciding, The Unthreaded opens The Lattice Cycle.