Silas Black

A routine emergency broadcast test was supposed to last a few seconds. It lasted just a little too long. Across the city, people pause —mid-step, mid-sentence, mid-breath —and for a moment, everything goes still. Then it passes. At least, that’s what everyone else thinks.

When the deep-space vessel Covenant encounters an impossible planet where none should exist, xenobiologist Rowan Hale knows something is wrong before the alarms ever sound. The anomaly doesn’t just pull them off course. It responds.

When Eli Carter stays late at school to finish a project, he expects silence—not the sound of something breathing in an empty hallway. At first, it’s faint. Easy to ignore. Easy to explain. Until he realizes the sound is coming from a locker. Locker 13. Warm to the touch. Moving when no one is near.

In a world where silence has become the only defense against something unseen, survival is no longer about strength—it’s about control. Elias Rook stands watch over a fragile group of survivors inside a crumbling courthouse, where every sound could draw something closer.