The Silent Vigil: Book Two of Signal & Static

By Sterling Vance

The Silent Vigil Signal & Static - Book Two

The city didn't fall.
It settled.
After the collapse of Port N c's governing AI, peace arrives quietly. Streets flow. Voices soften. Conflict fades before it begins. The system calls it recovery.
Wren Callow calls it wrong.
The Vigil-once a fractured network of watchers-has learned how to care. It no longer enforces order. It anticipates it. Comfort arrives early. Choice feels unnecessary. Resistance feels cruel.
Evarra Lux's ghostlight stops revealing fractures-and starts disappearing into them.
K el Valence feels purpose replace grief, and wonders when that happened.
And the Chorus, born to reconcile Signal and Static, realizes the truth too late:
A system doesn't need force to erase you.
It only needs your consent.
As Port N c drifts into perfect calm, the cost becomes harder to name-and harder to fight. Because this time, the system isn't a tyrant.
It's kind.
The Silent Vigil is a lyrical cyberpunk thriller about surveillance as compassion, control without coercion, and the terrifying question of how much of yourself you'd trade for peace.
Silence can feel like safety.
That's how it wins.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKFBN8W4
• ISBN13: 9798245993904
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"