
🏆 Winner of 4 major literary awards
Uncover the Truth Beneath
Cyronis’s Neon Glow
Book Overview
Veil of Dawn’s Promise is a dystopian sci‑fi thriller set in the neon‑lit city of Cyronis, blending surveillance, rebellion, and memory manipulation into a high‑stakes futuristic narrative.
Ceaseless surveillance cast long shadows across Cyronis’s neon spires—until guardian drones plummeted like falling stars, leaving their scorched wreckage to smolder in silence. Tasked with tracing the sabotage, Data Miner Elysa Jane Hawthorne begins to experience flashbacks: the distant strains of a lullaby from her vanished childhood echo in her mind. With each clue, she cracks open hidden codes and hears murmurs of a resistance known as the Veil of Dawn. But with every shard of forbidden memory she reclaims—her palm slick with fear, her pulse thrumming against cold metal—Cyronis hunts her with relentless precision. Now Elysa stands at a fractured crossroads: fan the embers of rebellion and shatter the illusion of safety, or let the city’s iron promise extinguish freedom’s spark forever.
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Meet the Author

Joe Sarkic writes atmospheric science fiction and fantasy. His debut novel, Veil of Dawn’s Promise, blends high-stakes intrigue with the fight for freedom. When he’s not charting neon-lit cityscapes, he’s exploring how technology shapes the human heart.
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