MrTetu
Mara Vale was there the night Halloway Station should have been empty.
The lights were wrong. The reflections moved too late. And something in the dark noticed her before she ever understood what she was seeing.
By morning, the station is sealed, the evidence is gone, and everyone is ready to call it stress, confusion, or a story invented by a woman who stayed too long underground. But Mara knows what she saw. And when the same impossible patterns begin appearing across Noctis City, she realizes Halloway was never an isolated incident.
Someone is hiding the truth.
Something is already inside the city.
And every answer Mara uncovers is erased before dawn.
As the cracks in reality spread beneath the surface of Noctis, Mara is pulled toward a secret war she was never meant to witness - one that was already in motion long before Umbra began.
A dark urban fantasy mystery set before the events of Umbra, where the city changes first, the shadows learn your name, and survival may depend on forgetting what you saw.