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Unconvicted (Disturbed Trilogy Book #1)
Jayden Keith Garcia
UNCONVICTED
(A Filipino Noir / Slow-Burn Psychological Drama)
"Ang bata, hindi dapat matutong maghintay nang ganoon katagal."
Jayden is a man built out of grey paint and measured silences. To his colleagues in the city, he is the "lead designer"-precise, efficient, and cold. To the detective, he is the perfect "inquiry"-a lookout who sees every variable but feels none of the guilt.
Jayden doesn't live; he logs. He doesn't love; he calculates. He has spent fifteen years perfecting the "System" in his head to drown out the resonance of a childhood spent waiting on a curb for a car that never stopped. He is a masterpiece of numbness. He is a ghost that hasn't realized he's dead.
Then came Kath.
She is the "stain" of color in his monochrome world. She is the warmth that threatens to melt the gears of his machinery. When a simple project turns into a journey back to the "stillness" of his hometown, the "cracks" in Jayden's persona begin to show.
But in the world of the unconvicted, every bit of light comes with a price.
While Jayden learns how to breathe again, the detective is checking his watch. The red paint is drying. And the boy on the curb is finally about to find out that some things are worse than being left behind.
"Everything in this world displeases me, but above all, my own displeasure in everything displeases me." - Friedrich Nietzsche
November, 2025
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