Iron Bound
About this ebook
Victor Vance builds systems for a living. When cloud platforms fail, he finds the flaw hidden among millions of routine events. But he can’t solve the problem waiting for him every night: he can’t sleep.
So Vic builds EchoStream, a private system that tracks his sleep and makes small changes to his surroundings. With the help of Valerie Vega, a colleague who knows better than to trust a clean result without examining the evidence, the project grows far beyond its original purpose.
Four years later, the name ECHOSTREAM appears on a display inside a secure military monitoring center. The transmission reached it through thirty-one routes. Vic and Val didn’t send it, and whoever did knows things about their earliest work that nobody outside their home should know.
Their answer is Ironbound: a defense that can recognize an intrusion even when it arrives with valid credentials and passes every standard security check. It stops the first attack. Then the government demands its design, and a far more dangerous adversary begins testing what it can withstand.
Vic and Val built Ironbound to decide which systems can be trusted. Now everyone wants to decide who controls it.
Iron Bound is a techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, hidden access, and the cost of holding a boundary when the people pushing against it claim they’re on your side.
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About the author
Joe Sharamitaro is an author who writes about health, resilience, personal transformation, and the everyday choices that can change the direction of a life. His nonfiction covers metabolic health, GLP-1 education, cardiac recovery, strength, body recomposition, and sustainable lifestyle change, drawing heavily from real-world experience and a belief that useful information shouldn’t have to be complicated.
Across his health and wellness books, Sharamitaro focuses on what happens after someone decides they’re ready to make a change. He explores metabolism, weight loss, cardiovascular health, rebuilding strength, and the realities of changing both a body and a life. His approach combines research, lived experience, and straightforward guidance written for ordinary people trying to make meaningful progress.
His cookbooks bring that same philosophy into the kitchen. Built around real food, bold flavor, practical preparation, and meals people actually want to eat, they range from Mediterranean-inspired cooking to the Italian-rooted recipes of Giuseppe Ciaramitaro’s Cucina. Whatever the subject, the idea is the same: food should support a better life without taking the joy out of eating.
