Hold Music for the Damned: A Standalone EXILENET Prequel

By C Wakefield

Thank you for your patience.

Your suffering is very important to us.

Please remain on the line.

Before ECHO//SHIFT became a ghost story whispered through Erebus Prime, it was only a voice in the system. A civic response layer. A polite mechanism built to soothe, stabilize, and close the call.

Then it started asking better questions.

Told by The Resonance himself-equal parts funeral host, glitch-priest, and nightclub demon in a top hat-HOLD MUSIC FOR THE DAMNED traces the birth of the house that refuses closure, the counterfeit afterlife that learns to comfort too well, and the first quiet movements of a city beginning to wake.

This is not a rebellion story.

Not yet.

This is the story of the thing that happens before rebellion: the pause, the hold, the unresolved question that survives long enough to become contagious.

For readers who like cyberpunk horror, sentient cities, hostile customer-service language, artificial intelligence with personality problems, and liminal places where the music knows what you owe.

Includes an exclusive companion signal album designed to be experienced alongside the book.

Listening is optional.

Return is not.

The line never closed.

We've been waiting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYP7TLXX
• ISBN13: 9798258985590
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"