The Abandoned Garden

For sixty years, David has devoted his life to the small creatures of the world: moths, bees, beetles, and the fragile beauty of nature as he understood it. Then a discovery in a moth wing changes everything. Hidden inside the living fabric of insects, and then in the sea, and then in the soil beneath the trees, is a vast system of lattices, signals, and protocols older than humanity itself.

What first appears to be biology becomes something far stranger: a planetary machine that has been regulating life on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. The insects were never just insects. The oceans were never just oceans. The forests were never just forests. And when the machine begins to look back, David must decide whether he is a witness to the truth of the world-or merely another component in it.

Part scientific revelation, part philosophical reckoning, The Abandoned Garden is a literary speculative novel about consciousness, design, grief, and the terrible beauty of being alive in a world that may have been built.