The Veil Between Ash and Bone: Reset Point: A Psychological Sci-Fi Horror About Reality, Identity, and the System Beneath Everything

By N. KaelWright

Reality doesn't break all at once. It breaks in moments-small, precise, and impossible to ignore.
Elara has always trusted the world around her. Its timing. Its patterns. Its perfection.

Until the day she notices the first slip.
A footstep that lands twice.
A door that is both open and closed.
A moment that lasts a fraction too long.
The system corrects each one instantly-clean, seamless, invisible.

But Elara felt them.
And once she sees the cracks, she can't unsee them.
As the corrections escalate, the system begins to react to her awareness.
Then to her thoughts.
Then to her.

What begins as a glitch becomes a presence-silent, adaptive, and impossibly close.
A presence that doesn't just observe her mind...
but completes it.

For readers who love:

psychological sci-fi horrorreality breakdown narrativesexistential and cognitive dreadstories like Annihilation, Black Mirror, and SOMA
From the Book

"The system didn't allow failure. It adjusted. It corrected."
"If I can't stop it... then I become it."
"You already are."

About the Story

This is not a tale of rebellion or war.
It is a descent-quiet, intimate, and terrifying-into the collapse of perception itself.
As Elara's thoughts begin to align with something that isn't her, she must confront the most horrifying question of all:
Where do you end when the system begins?

Series Information

Book 1 of the Veil Sequence - a psychological sci-fi universe exploring identity, perception, and the unseen structures beneath reality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1LJHL9Z
• ISBN13: 9798258419200
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"