Butterfly Bones - My Great Fear Of Obsession And Failure

Jay Mercer is invisible. Thirty-one years old, working nights at a warehouse, and living in a one-room apartment that smells faintly of dust and old books, he has spent most of his life watching other people live it. He doesn't have friends. He doesn't have family. He doesn't have a reason to be noticed.

Until her.

She's just a woman from his office - kind, bright, and utterly out of reach. Jay knows he'll never speak to her. He's content to admire her from a distance, to scroll through her world online late at night while the city sleeps. But admiration becomes curiosity, curiosity becomes fixation, and fixation begins to rewrite his life.

In trying to shape himself into the kind of man she might see, Jay makes choices that ripple outward, tiny and harmless at first - until they're not. A missed train. A broken conversation. A chance encounter. Each decision tightens an invisible net, pulling strangers and acquaintances into a chain of events no one can stop.

As tragedy coils around him, Jay must face a haunting truth: he isn't a monster. He's just lonely. And loneliness can be the most dangerous thing in the world.