The Resonance Shift — Shari Malin

They built the perfect machine. She built the perfect countermeasure.Vivian Hayes, a brilliant but conscience-stricken engineer, knows the Organization's RCRE program is a threat to global stability. Her solution is a masterpiece of sabotage: not a bomb, but a single compound slipped into the cooling system, subtly shifting its resonance frequency and ensuring the destruction of its high-value resources.Now, Viv has vanished, her victory complete. But the Organization—led by the vengeful Director Vektor and the relentless statistical analyst, Agent Vance—is hunting for a ghost with an engineer's mind.To survive, Viv must execute the perfect defense: complete, psychological erasure, becoming Eliza, a woman so boring she defies all predictive models. But when the Organization targets her former mentor, Dr. Thorne, and sets a calculated trap—a subtle, systemic flaw in her own building's plumbing—Viv faces the ultimate test. Can she let a technical disaster unfold to save her life, or will her genius force her to act and expose her shadow to the light?The hunt is no longer about finding a person; it's about solving a system.