AUGMENTED REALITY

By Andrew J. Harris

Harlan Voss has not left his house in five weeks. His neighbors keep seeing him anyway.

Every morning someone on his street holds a whole conversation with a man standing in an empty yard - and forgets it ninety seconds later. Harlan is inside the entire time, behind locked glass, holding a cup of coffee. He can put his voice where his body isn't. He can make a dog sit from forty feet. He has no memory of the four months that made him this way.

Elena Marsh does. She was a neuropsychologist at Ashgrove Behavioral, the private contractor that pulled Harlan out of a wreck on Highway 421 and turned him into an experiment - and she is the one who put his name on the list. Now the suppression field they buried in his head is failing, and it isn't failing quietly. It is bleeding into eleven houses full of ordinary people, taking a little more of them every day. Renee Hollis's mother has already lost decades of her own life.

Two men want to finish what Ashgrove started. One of them died in 1994 and never entirely left the building. The other has spent thirty years calling patience a kindness. Both of them need Harlan to hold a door open all the way - and neither of them knows that somebody else has been keeping the schedule since before either of them started.

A Southern suspense novel about memory, consent, and what one man owes the people who happen to live next door.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHL7YTYN
• ISBN13: 9798171420734
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"