Break We Carry

The world has always depended on people who know how to fix what breaks. Then repairing things becomes dangerous.When mechanic Wesley Drost restores a grocery-store refrigeration system, a hospital compressor forty-seven miles away fails at nearly the same moment.It is not an isolated coincidence.Across the country, repaired pumps, generators, elevators, medical equipment, and industrial systems are followed by failures elsewhere. Soon governments begin restricting repairs while engineers struggle to understand an impossible new rule: restoring lost function appears to take function from somewhere else.Wesley joins a group of mechanics, engineers, operators, and logistics specialists searching for another answer. If damage cannot simply disappear, perhaps no single person, machine, or community has to carry all of it.The Break We Carry is a grounded speculative science-fiction novel about infrastructure, sacrifice, maintenance, resilience, and the ordinary people who keep civilization working long before anyone learns their names.