The Night the Power Stayed On

By Eastman

At 2:14 AM, the power does not go out.It gets stronger.Gabriel Vale, a distribution engineer at Riverstone's District Substation 4, is investigating a catastrophic electrical anomaly when the grid begins drawing impossible amounts of current. Breakers refuse to trip. Transformers overheat without failing. The city's lights blaze at terrifying intensity.Then Gabriel watches his superior, Victor Ravenscroft, step into an ordinary shadow-and vanish.The darkness is not an absence of light. It is something else entirely. Objects that cross its boundary simply cease to exist in physical space, while illuminated areas remain strangely stable. Gabriel discovers that light itself is acting as an anchor, holding matter and reality together.Outside the substation, Riverstone has become a nightmare of brilliant illumination and absolute darkness. Streetlamps burn at maximum intensity. Abandoned vehicles remain powered. Neon signs glow with unnatural force. Between the pools of light are corridors of perfect blackness where nothing can safely exist.Gabriel joins Elena and Caleb, a young courier searching desperately for Arabella, a girl he believes may still be alive. Their journey through the city becomes a brutal exercise in staying within the light. Every failed lamp shrinks their safe territory. Every dark gap becomes potentially fatal.But the phenomenon is not random.The electrical frequency is behaving like a scanning system. The lights are measuring human bodies. The anomaly appears capable of reproducing people as photonic projections while leaving behind only the burned silhouettes of those it has consumed.As the survivors move through Riverstone's streets, buildings and familiar spaces become traps. Light can protect them-but it can also become bait.The Night the Power Stayed On is an atmospheric supernatural survival thriller about electricity, perception, and a city transformed into a labyrinth of shrinking light. When darkness can erase matter and illumination can imprison you, survival depends on understanding the system before the system understands you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HK3MN2SX
• ISBN13: 9798182776967
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Debbie Eastman
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"