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The system did not make a mistake. It followed instructions written eight years ago. Federal policy analyst Nolan Mercer discovers an active directive buried beneath an old emergency-operations statute. Fourteen agencies have already begun complying, yet there is no current order, no identifiable reviewer, and no public record explaining why it became active. When Nolan requests a routine verification, the evidence disappears. His access is restricted. His inquiry is rewritten as something harmless.

First contact was a bug. Saving humanity is going to ruin his nap schedule. For Fitzwilliam 'Fitz' Chen, the biggest bug in his life was a misplaced comma, not an intergalactic distress signal. His perfectly calibrated world of naps and minimal effort shatters when a clueless alien race, the Phlibb, mistake his smart-home glitch for a cry for help. Now, as Earth's accidental First Contact Liaison, Fitz faces the ultimate disruption: saving humanity from well-meaning cosmic chaos.