The Muting: They muted humanity. He will make them hear its scream.

By Nate Roberts

Dr. Elias Thorn seeks refuge from grief in the profound quiet of the university archives, a world away from the memory of his wife Elena's death. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a dense, black stone tablet, his sanctuary is violated. The strange, fluid symbols carved into the stone are horribly familiar-they mirror the alien geometry of the tumor that stole his wife's life.

His scientific curiosity turns to dread when a lab analysis reveals the impossible: the artifact is broadcasting a low-frequency signal that is a perfect, horrifying match for a data ghost found in Elena's final brain scans. Her death was not a tragedy. It was an intrusion.

This discovery catapults Elias into the heart of a conspiracy on an unimaginable scale. He learns humanity has been "Muted," psychically severed from a true connection and trapped in the solitary confinement of their own minds. We are a herd, managed by a cabal of hidden Shepherds who harvest our emotions for ancient, parasitic entities. Hunted by relentless "Archivists" and facing a system that masquerades as philanthropy, Elias must accept a terrifying new reality: the silence isn't empty, it's a cage.

Forced off the grid, Elias joins forces with Aris Thorne, a brilliant, outcast academic who has theorized about the Muting for years. Together, they must unravel a truth buried in millennia of lies and find a way to turn the enemy's greatest weapon-the very frequency of silence-against them. But in a prison built to last an eternity, can one man's grief become the key that sets humanity free?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJ63K1HK
• ISBN13: 9798292884415
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"