My North Star

At twenty-one, Ben lives in a world of precise lines and quiet patterns. He is non-verbal, autistic, and currently trapped in a physical nightmare. A rotting tooth has turned his jaw into a source of agonizing pain, but the help available is a different kind of torture.

Traditional dentists are a storm of high-pitched kindness, invasive small talk, and chaotic waiting rooms. For Ben, the wait for a specialist sedation clinic is eighteen
months long - time he doesn't have.

Desperate, Deborah scours the internet for a suitable dentist for Ben. She reads reviews of every practice finding each one unhelpful. But then she finds Rose Avenue. Dr. Martin Vane.

The reviews describe him as clinical, blunt, and eerily precise. They speak of a man who runs a silent clinic where efficiency is god and bedside manner is non-existent. He sounds perfect. He sounds like the only man Ben might actually let touch him.

But when she takes the leap and travels to Rose Avenue, Deborah discovers that reputation and reality have begun to drift apart. The sanctuary she expected is under threat, and the clinical silence she was promised is being drowned out by a world that values pleasantries over precision. With Ben's pain reaching a breaking point, Deborah is forced to go beyond the local clinics and hunt for the Stone Man herself.