The Drowning Dark

In the fictional nation of Meridia, the historic "Safe Harbor Decree"—a policy protecting undocumented youth from expulsion—was ruled an administrative overreach by the High Court, triggering a national reckoning. Seven years later, a blind piano tuner is the sole witness to a murder in a remote coastal villa. Trapped by a storm and hunted by a killer who moves like a ghost, he must rely on his acute hearing and sense of smell to survive the night. The blood has long dried, but the terror still breathes in the silence, pulling him into a labyrinth of political secrets, broken promises, and a past that refuses to stay dead. This is a story about rewriting a life that was meant to be erased.