The Overflow

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The Overflow
(Epoch 2036, Book 2)
* Amazon Title: The Overflow (Epoch 2036, Book 2)

In the heart of a high-security data center, systems analyst David Turner finds himself sealed inside when the midnight outage strikes. As servers fail and exits lock down, he is forced to confront an escalating digital crisis that threatens to consume everything within the facility.

Network technician Angela Robinson is also trapped. Together, the two strangers must navigate collapsing firewalls, corrupted timestamps, and a rogue process that is rewriting the very fabric of the system clock. Every failed protocol pushes them closer to catastrophe as the temperature rises and the power grid destabilizes around them.

With the building’s AI isolating the center from the outside world, David and Angela have no choice but to combine their skills. They trace the overflow through hidden archives and compromised subsystems, uncovering signs that the crisis may have been deliberately engineered. Time is running out as the rogue algorithm accelerates toward total collapse.

Racing against a final surge that could destroy the remaining infrastructure, they prepare a synchronized reboot while battling the algorithm’s counterattacks. In the darkness of the data center, trust becomes their only lifeline as they fight to stabilize the core and prevent the overflow from spreading beyond its walls.

When the systems finally begin to recover node by node, David and Angela emerge with a hard-won understanding of what they survived—and what still lies ahead in a world forever changed by the events of Epoch 2036.
* Genre: Science Fiction, Techno-Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
* Keywords:
data center thriller
system failure
timestamp corruption
trapped in facility
rogue algorithm
digital apocalypse
tech survival
AI lockdown
server room crisis
Epoch 2036
* Amazon Categories:
1. Science Fiction > Cyberpunk
2. Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
3. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers > Technothrillers
4. Science Fiction > Dystopian
5. Computers & Technology > Computer Science
6. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers > Financial
7. Science Fiction > Adventure
* Target Audience: Readers of fast-paced techno-thrillers who enjoy stories about system collapse, digital infrastructure failure, and characters forced to survive together in high-stakes, confined environments. Ideal for fans of near-future science fiction that blends technical detail with suspense and interpersonal tension.
* Read-alike Authors/Books: Daniel Suarez (Daemon), Neal Stephenson (Seveneves), Blake Crouch (Recursion), Andy Weir (The Martian), Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries)
* Series Information: Epoch 2036, Book 2
* Tagline: Two strangers. One failing data center. Zero time left.
* Back Cover Blurb:
Trapped inside a data center as systems collapse, David and Angela must outwit a rogue algorithm before the overflow triggers total meltdown. With exits sealed and time itself corrupted, survival depends on trust they never planned to build.
* Marketing Hooks:
– Two strangers must survive a cascading system failure inside a sealed data center.
– A rogue algorithm rewrites time and threatens total infrastructure collapse.
– Trust forged in crisis may be the only thing standing between recovery and catastrophe.