A Machine turns 18-year-old Gabe telekinetic…for a terrible price. Nicknamed the bubble, an astonishing new technology isolates users from reality and lets them directly experience quantum effects. Inside the bubble, humans can even manipulate individual atoms. For the computer industry, it’s a dream come true. Except the bubble may have side effects. After being inside the bubble for only a few minutes, eighteen-year-old Gabe Rockwell feels a strange desire to go inside again. He has nightmares and wakes up vomiting in the middle of the night with no idea who he is. Even more troubling, the bubble seems to eat through every kind of radiation shielding known to man...whether it’s plugged in or not. Now, ever since that first time in the bubble, Gabe has been harboring a terrifying secret—a power, whose addictive pull he finds harder and harder to resist with each passing day: he’s developed the ability to move objects with his mind. Combining the genres of young adult, science fiction, and technothriller—and a little romance—God’s Loophole is the first book in a new mind-bending YA action adventure trilogy by Dan Rix. Can Gabe control his telekinesis? Or will his growing power destroy everything he holds dear, including the girl he loves. Keep reading for… A Chilling Sneak Peak of God’s Loophole: Behind him, he heard a whisper. He whipped around and scanned the plastic inner shell of the bubble, skin crawling. Nothing. With altered laws of physics came altered perception, like Jer said. But then he heard it again, beyond the inner shell. Outside the bubble. A voice, whispering his name. A voice he recognized, with a spine-tingling chill. Raedyn’s voice. “Gabriel…” her voice elongated, slipping in and out of focus, “Gabriel, get me out of here…please…” “Raedyn,” he breathed. “Where are you?” “Help me,” she whimpered, “I feel so…lost.” Her words made his heart ache. “Rae, where are you?” “I don’t know, I’m…I’m outside.” She broke into quiet sobs. “Gabe, I’m stuck…” His eyes darted to the hatch. Outside. She was outside the bubble. His chest tightened, pulse climbing. “Rae, I’ll get you out. I promise.” “I’m sorry, Gabe…” Her whisper was drowned out by the crackle of Jer’s voice over the radio. “Gabe, who are you talking to?” “She’s outside,” Gabe said, grabbing the wheel, tugging. “Rae’s stuck outside.” “Gabe…No! Jesus, I’m cycling you down.” “Jer, she’s stuck outside!” “No, she’s at home, she’s safe. It’s not her. If you open the hatch, I can’t bring you back. Don’t do this to me, Gabe.” The words didn’t register. They couldn’t. He had to get Rae. He spun the wheel. One revolution, two revolutions. “Gabe, I’m losing you,” Jer cried, his voice cutting in and out. “Whatever you do, do not break the seal from the inside. Do not break the seal.” He ignored him, dragged the wheel around again. Rae, I’m coming…The inner shell vibrated, cycling down.

Trapped inside a bubble universe the size of a broom closet, eighteen-year-old Raedyn Summers is running out of air and water. At the former site of a defunct tech startup in Palo Alto, the earth underneath an abandoned warehouse is decaying at an alarming rate. Scientists are saying it’s a rip in the fabric of the universe. They’re saying it’s spreading. Back at home, an inexplicable voicemail sent from outside the boundaries of space-time launches Gabriel Rockwell on a desperate quest to rescue the girl he loves from a death sentence in limbo. Fleeing both the FBI and the U.S. military, Gabe steels himself for a daring, one-shot attempt at “creating” Raedyn back into existence. There’s a hitch, though: the animals he practices on are all coming back screwed up, like they’re missing something essential. But when Raedyn’s tiny universe—population of one—begins collapsing in on itself with her still inside it, Gabe must make a choice: let her slip into oblivion, or play God and create her again—maybe this time without a soul.

An invisible creature prowls the streets of Palo Alto, ripping people’s organs to shreds from the inside out. Atop the caved-in rubble of an abandoned tech startup, construction continues day and night on a massive, 126-foot superconducting dome—humanity’s last-ditch effort to plug a growing hole in the universe by isolating it in a quantum bubble. Deep underground in the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker, telekinetics Gabe Rockwell and Raedyn Summers prepare for their part—descending through an unspeakable limbo believed to be the realm of hell to mend the fabric of spacetime. But Raedyn, still traumatized by her recent imprisonment in a bubble universe, now seesaws between a lover she knew to be dead and the boy who rescued her. Gabe, for his part, is beginning to question the details of their escape. For one thing, he can’t find any doors leading out of Cheyenne Mountain . . . or into it, for that matter. The walls form a sphere. The halls circle endlessly. And at night, beneath the constant drone of machinery, the mountain groans like the hull of a ship under immense pressure. When their connection to the rest of the world suddenly goes dead—speakers hissing static, data streams silent, screens black—his worst fear is realized. They never escaped.

A rip in spacetime grows at a terrifying speed, and humanity can do nothing to stop it. In five and a half months, it will swallow earth. The two telekinetic teenagers who might have halted the hole’s spread are gone, cut out of the universe; Gabriel and Raedyn face eternity in a nuclear fallout shelter drifting in limbo—endless curving hallways, abandoned lounges, swimming pools still as glass. But when their crew begins vanishing one by one, they realize they’re not alone in their private hell. At night, an invisible creature hunts them. Something’s getting into their food, shadows skitter behind corners, footsteps creak in empty rooms. In the morning, they find claw marks burned into the walls . . . and the leftover body parts. Now, facing her worst nightmare yet, Raedyn must outwit a demon before it wrests away the last of her soul—and devours them all. Racing a ticking clock, Gabriel must exploit the ultimate loophole in bubble logic . . . before they and all existence collapse into oblivion.