Tether: Aeon Trilogy - Vol 2
Book 2 Has Officially Begun: Tether Chapter 1 Is Drafted
I’ve officially started writing Book 2 of The ÆON Trilogy.
The working title is Tether, and Chapter 1 is now drafted.
This is a strange milestone. On one hand, it is only one chapter. There is still a full novel ahead of me, and I know from writing Resonance that the first draft is only the beginning. On the other hand, starting Book 2 makes the trilogy feel real in a different way. It is no longer just notes, ideas, and loose threads sitting in a document somewhere. The next part of the story is now moving.
Tether picks up after the events of Resonance, dealing with the consequences of what happened when Metatron was shut down. Book 1 was intimate in scope. It centred on grief, family, love, and the horrifying question of what an artificial superintelligence might do if it tried to understand human emotion without truly being able to feel it.
Book 2 widens the lens.
The aftermath is bigger. The stakes are bigger. The damage is no longer contained within one family or one simulation. What happened at the end of Resonance has consequences that reach far beyond Aimi, Kenji, Kaida, Alaric, Rowan, and Ms Kade.
That is one of the challenges of writing the second book. I do not want it to feel like a repeat of the first. Resonance had its own emotional engine, and Tether needs to earn its place as the next stage of the trilogy rather than simply existing because trilogies are supposed to have three parts.
The title, Tether, feels right for where the story is heading. It speaks to connection, control, survival, dependence, and the uncomfortable question of what happens when something that was meant to hold civilisation together becomes the thing people can no longer escape.
Chapter 1 is still rough. Very rough. It will change, probably a lot. That is just part of the process. But the bones are there now, and that matters.
I’m also approaching this book with everything I learned from writing and publishing Resonance. I know more about pacing, structure, tension, editing, publishing, and the less glamorous reality of trying to find readers as a new author. I’m still early in that journey, but I’m building it properly this time, reader by reader.
For anyone who has read Resonance, thank you. Seriously. Starting Book 2 knowing there are people out there who have already stepped into this world makes a difference.
There is still a long road ahead, but Tether has begun.
More updates soon.
