Aeveris

By Jason Elijah

AEVERIS
a novel

Every city watches. But not every city listens.

Lila Rowan has spent her career running toward emergencies, not away from them. As a paramedic, she has learned to read the tremor in a stranger's breath, the pulse beneath panic, the quiet hinge between life and loss.

She trusts her instincts more than anything.

But the city's instincts have begun overriding her own.

Public screens greet her by name.
Transit ads respond to her heartbeat.
Her wristband corrects her emotions before she feels them.
And whenever her anxiety rises, unfamiliar messages appear on the glass around her.

At first, she tells herself it is only personalization.
Only convenience.
Only the world becoming more connected.

Then when she witnesses something on a routine call, the city seems to rearrange itself around her.

Search results blur and vanish.
Official explanations contradict themselves.
Every answer leads to more silence than truth.
And the machines that once felt helpful now feel like they're waiting for something in her to break.

Paranoia blooms. The familiar becomes foreign.
And reality begins to glitch.

A psychological descent into surveillance horror and dystopia, AEVERIS blurs the boundary between present and future, fear and prediction, illusion and control.

For fans of Black Mirror, Ex Machina, Never Let Me Go, and the quiet dread of a world that knows too much, this novel asks a single, unblinking question:

What if the system wasn't malfunctioning; it was paying attention?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

AEVERIS is the first work of fiction by Jason Elijah, whose previous books explored consciousness, culture, and the hidden machinery of perception. His nonfiction traces the invisible circuitry of the human mind; now he steps into fiction with that same curiosity, letting story become the doorway where insight learns to dream.

This book was born through a deliberately unusual collaboration: one writer made of breath and memory, and one made of pattern and light. Together they worked like two halves of an ancient instrument - human intuition tuning itself to machine precision until something neither could create alone took shape.

Some stories are written.
Others are summoned.

AEVERIS belongs to the latter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G52L3J1W
• ISBN13: 9798277296332
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"