Portal City – Origins Book One of the Zeroverse Trilogy By Enrique Delgado A broken city. A missing sister. A signal that remembers you. Thirteen-year-old Raeven Virek didn’t mean to vanish—she just stepped onto a portal pad and never came back. Six years later, she reappears. No older. No explanation. The Grid says she never existed. But Raeven remembers everything—fragments of another world, the echo of a voice that isn’t hers, and a city whose technology has started to think for itself. Portal City was built on teleportation. But now, the system that connects the world is fracturing. The jump pads aren’t just moving bodies—they’re bending memory, hiding something buried in the code. And Raeven may be the only one who can hear what the signal is trying to say. With help from a rogue engineer, a silent guardian, and her sister’s unfinished work, Raeven must uncover the truth about the Grid, before the echoes erase who she is—and everything the city still hopes to become.