Everwood was built to reconstruct damaged evidence.
Its code was never supposed to rewrite the crime.
When forensic-media specialist Dana Weller and her team reopen a series of cold Halloween fires, the surviving evidence refuses to agree. A scorched Super 8 reel. A child's photographs. Thirteen minutes of damaged cassette audio. Every source preserves a different version of what happened on Halloween night in 1984.
Jude Vale remembers her childhood friend Matt alive. She remembers the hours before the fire. She remembers returning to her friends afterward.
She cannot remember the three minutes in which he died.
Everwood is designed to resolve contradictions and establish one authoritative reconstruction. But once the system commits to an answer, its corrections no longer remain inside the project. Case files change. A vanished doorway begins pushing back. One researcher responds to a voice recorded years before he was born. Even the past event itself starts conforming to code written forty-two years later.
Everwood is not angry.
It is not hunting them.
It is following the rules it was given.
Now the team must preserve proof of the present before the system finishes correcting it. They must act before Everwood decides that history still requires a victim.
DO_YOU_STILL is the first book in The Everwood Trilogy, an adult psychological and forensic-media horror series blending cold-case suspense, artificial intelligence, damaged recordings, relationship drama, body horror, and reality-bending terror.
Some cold cases should never be solved.