They told us guilt always has a sound. Every person is born with The Aegis, an implant that punishes cruelty with deafening static. The worse the crime, the louder the noise. Some people spend the rest of their lives trapped inside it. As one of the city's best Static Hunters, Kael Arden has spent years tracking criminals by listening to the frequencies no one else can hear. Then she finds a man who should be drowning in unbearable static. Instead... he's completely silent. Forced into an alliance with the one person she's supposed to arrest, Kael uncovers a truth capable of destroying everything society believes about justice, guilt, and humanity. But the deeper they fall into the conspiracy, the more impossible one fact becomes. Every time he touches her...the noise disappears.