THE DOT
by MARK BERTRAND

Book Five From Nirvanaing

The Terror of Human Nature Restored

The DOT

This is a complete, standalone story that is book 5 of a five-novel series.

Locked in a planetary prison and cut off from his neurolink, Hayden refuses to reveal the coordinates to Planet 444.

What waits there is not a hidden colony. It is the wreckage of a grand experiment.

On a dying world where humanity was stripped of anger in the name of Nirvana, a gifted child grew into a king, discovered rage, and turned transcendence into tyranny. Zosimos was supposed to save his people. Instead, he dragged them through murder, obsession, and fear. Now a disgraced ruler, a haunted scientist, a vanished sage, and a conscious machine that does not care whether humanity survives are all that stand between Planet 444 and final collapse.

But the Humanoids are coming back.

They want answers. They want results. And what they are about to find is more dangerous than failure.

Because the true horror on Planet 444 is not what humanity became when anger returned.

It is what was always there, waiting to be set free.

The Dot is a dark psychological thriller of memory, power, moral collapse, and the terrifying cost of remaking human nature.