Cassie Barrett moves through a city that feels newly fragile, every routine moment shadowed by a pressure she cannot explain. A call from a voice that should belong to no one she recognizes forces...
Cassie Barrett moves through a city that feels newly fragile, every routine moment shadowed by a pressure she cannot explain. A call from a voice that should belong to no one she recognizes forces her to question the boundaries between memory, reality, and what it means to act when the ground under her feet seems to shift. As she navigates isolating encounters and a network of unseen watchers, Cassie learns that the ordinary has teeth and that survival may require embracing a truth she never believed she could bear. The story tightens around her choices, the rooms she cannot leave, and the truth she discovers about the cost of looking too closely at what others prefer to forget.