Everything that Lingers: A Near Future, Speculative Fiction Novel

By Rayn Starr

What if you could sense everything people try to hide, before they ever speak a word?Everything That Lingers is a literary psychological novel set in the near future, following Vydehi, a researcher whose life changes after she undergoes a cutting-edge sensory augmentation that sharpens her sense of smell beyond human limits. With it comes an unexpected consequence: emotions, memories, illness, and deception now announce themselves in the air around her.
Everything That Lingers is a quiet, immersive exploration of memory, grief, and responsibility, where perception itself becomes a moral challenge, and every sensed truth asks a dangerous question: just because you can know something, should you?

Inside This Intimate Psychological Novel, You'll Discover: Perception as Power: How augmented awareness reshapes identity, empathy, and trust.Memory in the Body: The way scent carries grief, love, and unfinished history.The Cost of Knowing: When heightened insight turns closeness into exposure.Ethics Without Rules: Navigating consent, care, and truth in a world just beyond our own.A Woman Between Worlds: Following Vy as she learns what it means to stay human while becoming something more.
Who Is This For?Readers of literary fiction with psychological depthFans of near-future and speculative novels grounded in emotionBook club readers who enjoy slow-burn, thought-provoking storiesThose drawn to themes of memory, identity, and moral ambiguityAnyone fascinated by how technology reshapes the most intimate parts of being human
What would you do if the world revealed itself to you, completely, constantly, and without mercy?Click "Buy Now" to enter a story where memory lingers, truth has a scent, and knowing comes at a cost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GCV9YTNQ
• ISBN13: 9798241293459
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"