Do not silence what is trying to speak.
Do not answer every call.
Never assume fear leaves no mark.
In the isolated valley town of Solos, fear arrives at night.
It comes as fevered dreams and waking terrors, as crows gather to assist or destroy. What begins in the mind leaves marks on the body, and the town turns inward while trying to find a cause.
Miriam Halloway is the valley’s healer, trained to listen beneath symptoms and soothe what cannot be named. When the illness spreads and begins to claim lives, Miriam is forced to confront a truth she does not yet understand: the sickness is not natural, and it is not contained.
Beyond the valley lies Unire, a city built on order, progress, and control. Long-standing tensions between the two communities resurface as Miriam uncovers evidence that fear itself has been weaponized—engineered to influence, divide, and assimilate.
As the boundary between psychological and physical reality begins to collapse, Miriam must decide what it means to protect her people when she herself begins to exhibit signs of the disease.
Solos is a speculative literary novel about inherited responsibility, the cost of autonomy, and the dangerous power of belief—where fear is not imagined, but designed.
To be delivered upon publication, 2026.