Some doors, once opened, can't be closed. Some people can't either.For thirty years, a secret research facility buried in the Canadian north has chased something impossible: a way through the fourth dimension. In 2027, they finally get it right - a technology that folds space, defies gravity, and renders any wall unbreakable. It could end wars. Stop wildfires before they spread. Save people the rest of the world has already given up on.There's just one condition. Everyone who walks in stays in. Forever.Alexandra Moreau is twenty-eight years old, brilliant, and certain she can live with the price - no contact, no visits, no going home, not even when it matters most - if it means never again standing by and watching the world burn. For a while, she's right. She saves lives. She believes in the mission. She believes in the woman who recruited her.Then the board starts saying no. Carefully, defensibly, at terrible cost - while people die on the other side of decisions made by committee. And a founding scientist who's spent thirty years watching the same thing offers Alex a different answer: give the technology to the world, whether the world is ready for it or not.What Alex doesn't know is how far that plan has already slipped out of anyone's control - including his.The Fourth Wall is a hard science fiction novel about the physics of a fourth dimension, and the much harder problem of who gets to decide what's done with it. There are no easy sides here - only a woman caught between two kinds of certainty, racing to stop a mistake she helped make, with no guarantee she isn't already too late.
