The
Fractured
Four people in a basement. Five books to get home.
In 2026, Joel Kirby builds a device in a Bristol basement. It works. Joel (17), his stepfather Martin (46), and their neighbours Priya and Callum (both 17) are displaced across 286 years of human history — with no control over destination, no way to choose not to travel, and a sixty-minute window once the device charges.
5
Novels
4
Characters
286
Years Spanned
2026 – 2312
Era
Joel Kirby
Builder. 17 at displacement.
Built the device. Understands it better than anyone. Will not admit this is his fault.
Martin Calloway
Joel's stepfather. 46.
The adult in the room who keeps finding out that's not sufficient preparation for what the room turns into.
Priya Okafor
Scientist. 17.
Takes measurements. Fills notebooks. Is the only one who will write down the worst-case hypothesis.
Callum Osei
Navigator. 17.
Draws maps. Finds the ways out. Is better at reading people than any of them have needed him to be, until now.
The Books
The Fractured
Signal Noise
2026 → 2157
A Bristol basement. A device that works. Four people displaced across 131 years.
The Fractured
The Long Recharge
2312 → 2091/2140
Day 19 of 21 on an Aegean coast. An expanding anomaly. A wound in spacetime in the Alps.
The Fractured
Fractured Ground
~560 CE
Iceland, sixth century. The device is failing. Someone in this village knows what they are.
The Fractured
The Weight of Return
TBD
Coming.
The Fractured
What Remains
TBD
Coming.
Artefacts from The Fractured
The documents, blueprints, and notebooks produced in-universe — rendered with full visual fidelity to their originals.
Unit J.K. — Engineering Schematics
Joel Kirby
Four-sheet engineering drawing of the harmonic detector-amplifier.
Joel's Notebook — Signal Observations
Joel Kirby
Handwritten field notes from the Bristol basement and Ceres Station.
ISCA Initial Processing Memo
Institutional Science Containment Agency classification of the Bristol event.
Priya's Notebook — Day 19
Priya Okafor
Day 19 observation and analysis spread. The mathematics, again.
Zone Expansion Log
Priya Okafor
Daily measurements of the exotic matter zone from Day 1 to Day 19.
Callum's Map — Aegean Settlement
Callum Osei
Hand-drawn map of the Ali Vertas settlement, zone boundary, and key landmarks.
How The Fractured connects to the universe
The group's passage through time leaves traces in the historical record that other characters in other series encounter. The ISCA classifies the Bristol incursion within 48 hours. A 2039 paper by a researcher named Reinholt — who later disappears from all institutional records — describes precursor anomaly signatures that the group is responsible for.
The connections are rewards for readers who find them. No prior knowledge of the mainline series is required. Every Fractured book works alone.
E7 × S1
Around 2044, S1 protagonist Maren Solberg — not yet at Svalbard — is observed through a wound-zone interface without her knowledge. She never learns she was seen.
E7 × CX3
The group's temporal trace forms part of the historical record that the Long Burn civilisation uses to map Seam formation patterns. Their displacement is evidence.