Silent Ember: A Psionic Awakening Thriller, Book 1

Eleven people touch a necklace in a cramped fortification room above a Czech street. They collapse as one. They wake sharing a memory of wet cobbles, German voices, and something watching from outside time-and the certainty that whatever they saw recognized them back. Within hours the footage is everywhere. Governments call it a medical anomaly and move to contain what they cannot explain. Marcus Stern, a pattern analyst who has been tracking impossible reports for two years, sees structure where others see hysteria. Anya Volkov, an intelligence officer who reads people by what they hesitate to say, is already en route. David Riley, a field operative who distrusts certainty that arrives too early, receives a directive with no signature-and no choice. Prague converges them on an artifact codenamed EMBER, linked to José Rizal and kept in a memorial bastion most of the world has never heard of. It is small enough to fit in a gloved hand. Every faction with the reach to take it already knows that. As they move through a Europe tightening around the incident, perception begins to bend. Language arrives unlearned. Timing slips by fractions no instrument should catch. Three professionals trained to read threat find themselves inside something that does not follow the rules they were built on-and cannot yet say whether they are hunters, witnesses, or the next point of contact.