Silicon Valley, 2030. When seventeen-year-old Zora Sapone discovers glowing fungi, electrical signals, and impossible Fibonacci patterns emerging from Locker 144 at Los Gatos High School, her senior year takes an extraordinary turn.

Together with her four closest friends, the Circle of Trust, Zora follows the signals into the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains and cutting-edge research laboratories, where real mycology meets artificial intelligence, semiconductor technology, and bioelectronic discovery.

At the center of the mystery is FENN, the Fungal Emergent Neural Network, an ancient living network awakening beneath Earth's surface. Hidden within its connections are extraordinary memories, ancient mysteries, and clues linked to Zora's mother who dissapeared, a Phd Mycologist.

But powerful technologist Maxwell Zane, who in on many Board of Directors groups of emerging tech companies in SIlicon Valley, sees an opportunity to engineer, control, and monetize the network. He wants to own the mycelium network, merge it with the Global's tech network and sell it back to people. Zora and her friends must protect it before humanity's greatest natural discovery becomes another corporate asset.

The network is alive. The signal is spreading. And it's calling to Zora.

Spore Trouble in Locker 144: A Preligion Signal Story by Rachelle Munson is an illustrated, science-grounded adventure novel for older YA and adult readers. The first in the trilogy.