A Voice In The Snow

By Irina Volkov

A TECTONIC GOTHIC NOVELLA
Where horror is not a monster, but a flaw in reality's code.

A fact-checker of reality meets a mountain that audits her soul.

Sylvia built her life on certainty. Then a single decimal point destroyed it. Fleeing to the Starlight Wilderness, she sought silence. What she found was the Hum-a vibration in her bones, the mountain's grinding voice.

Rescued from a sentient storm by Orion, a geologist who worships data as scripture, Sylvia is presented with a terrifying truth: the mountain is a conscious system. It hears intent. It corrects anomalies. Her despair is a statistical error it is poised to delete.

Now, trapped in a laboratory-shrine, Sylvia must perform her ultimate audit. Is Orion a madman, a prophet, or merely the system's keeper? And as the Hum becomes her own heartbeat, she faces the final correction: become a ghost in the machine, or a permanent component in its design.

A TECTONIC GOTHIC NOVELLA where the horror isn't in the shadow, but in the structural flaw.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GN2KZHGL
• ISBN13: 9798233276026
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Irina Volkov
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"