Borrowed Hands

Perfection was never the goal. Control was.

Elara Voss is a graduate student obsessed with mastering her own mind-flawless, disciplined, untouchable. Deep in her research on Franz Mesmer, she begins nightly trance sessions in front of her mirror, convinced she's found the key to total self-control.

But her reflection stops mirroring her.

Soon Elara is waking with scars she can't explain, visions of an operating room she's never stepped inside, and a voice that isn't hers whispering back from the glass. Somewhere across the city, a disgraced surgeon named Victor Fisher is dying-and the guilt he can't outrun is finding its way into her.

As the line between her mind and his begins to dissolve, Elara has to face the one thing her discipline never prepared her for: she was never in control at all.

A psychological horror story about obsession, guilt, and the terrifying cost of trying to master the uncontrollable.