The Veil Of Consent

Elias Arden is a man who fixes precision instruments for a living-steady hands, measured thinking, a life built on what can be tested and proved. Then grief breaks his world. After a funeral, a scar appears on his neck, and a quiet pattern begins to pull at the edges of his sleep: vibrations, white light, a roar, and a moment of impossible stillness-when Elias finds himself floating above his own body.

What begins as private terror becomes something far worse when strangers start appearing a...