THE MOUNTAIN DID NOT DIE. IT EVOLVED.
The world survived the first signal.
It may not survive what comes next.
After the mountain's collapse, humanity's remaining survivors discover a terrifying truth: the infected are no longer mindless predators.
They're learning. They're coordinating. And something is guiding them.
Sirens weaponize sound to command the dead. Renders evolve into increasingly efficient hunters. And the mysterious Veiled appear where human fear and conflict threaten to tear survivors apart.
At a fortified rail-yard settlement, Mara fights to keep her people alive as their defenses weaken and the world beyond the perimeter grows more dangerous.
But the greatest threat may be the one person who can stand between humanity and extinction.
Jonah Vale is changing.
The infected hesitate before him. The signal responds to his presence. And with every passing day, the line between the man he once was and the intelligence awakening inside him grows thinner.
As new dangers emerge from the ruins of civilization, Mara and the survivors must confront a horrifying possibility.
The outbreak wasn't simply an infection. It was the beginning of something far greater.
And evolution has only just begun.
Static Fields is Book Two of The Quiet Ascent, Silas Black's post-apocalyptic horror series, blending desperate survival, intelligent infected, psychological terror, and creeping cosmic dread.
The nightmare continues from The Quieting. Best experienced in series order.