The signal was never meant to be found.At 2:17 a.m., astrophysicist Elian Voss detects a flaw in the universe—a pattern hidden in the pulse of a distant neutron star. At first, it looks like noise. Then he sees the sequence.Prime numbers.Precise. Intentional. Impossible.As Voss digs deeper, the anomaly spreads across decades of archived data, revealing something far more unsettling than a signal. Entire regions of space appear to be missing mass. Not gone—removed. And buried within the data is a second pattern, one that does not simply exist.It responds.To observation. To attention. To him.Driven by obsession and haunted by personal loss, Voss assembles a small team to build a device capable of probing the unseen structure of reality itself. What they uncover challenges everything humanity believes about the universe—and their place within it.Because the cosmos is not empty.It is layered. Watched. And something beyond human understanding has already begun to notice them.The Parallax Signal is a gripping hard science fiction thriller that blends cutting-edge physics with existential suspense, where discovery comes at a cost—and some truths are not meant to be uncovered.If you want, I can also produce:A short 250-character version (for marketing slots)A high-conversion "e;hook-first"e; variant for A/B testingOr a more literary / award-market versionJust tell me.