Her words may launch a career-but they could also expose a dangerous truth.

Four years after The Daughter of the Lightning Brain, Erika Kincaid steps into a new role as the secret ghostwriter for her best friend, Terri Tarrant, whose job at The New York Times takes them across domestic and international frontiers. As journalism, technology, and hidden agendas collide, The Transcendental Spy delivers a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that explores ambition, identity, and the human cost of truth in a plausible near-future world.