Dark Matter — Stephen Brown

What if everything your parents told you was a lie? Helena Price, a brilliant astrophysicist, has spent her life reaching for the stars-first at Oxford, now at CERN. But when her parents vanish in a mysterious car fire, her world tilts off its axis. A sealed letter, hidden for twenty-five years, draws her back to her childhood home and into a maze of concealed rooms, encrypted files, and impossible truths.As Helena unearths blueprints dated before her parents were born and photographs that shouldn't exist, the line between science and conspiracy begins to blur. Pursued by secrets she barely understands, she must decide whether to walk away-or follow the clues to the edge of what is known, and possibly beyond. Atmospheric, ambitious, and deeply human, Dark Matter is a story about legacy, identity, and the price of the unexplained.