The Witnesses

Jack Morris built his career reading people—predicting their breaking points before they reached them. He failed to read his own wife. When Emily dies in an apparent suicide, Jack is left with nothing but a few documents and notes, and a growing suspicion that her death was never that simple. His investigation pulls in Nora Winter—the journalist who didn't answer Emily's last message, and Emily's closest friend—who has carried the weight of that silence ever since. What they find shouldn't exist: golden orbs drifting at the edges of reality, visible only to the Marked. The Marked are individuals whose abilities defy every law of physics—and that is precisely what makes them targets. David Hawkins, a cybersecurity engineer, becomes one of the Marked by accident—and is dragged into a world he never could have anticipated. He begins searching for others like him. But the Marked are already being hunted. Behind every move they make, every loss they suffer, every door that opens only to slam shut—there is someone who was there first. In a world where memory can be weaponized and logic can be rewritten, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice. Bound together by fate, they will leave a crack in the silence of this world—one that may never heal.