Speculative fiction / Technological thriller

The Silence That Counted

"When memory becomes evidence, silence is no longer safe."

During a cyclone, Elian loses eleven seconds of time - an impossible absence noticed only by Iris, a communications intelligence trained to catch what others miss. Far away, seventeen-year-old Ava Morgan hears a voice in her wall recall something no system should know about her late mother. As human witnesses and intelligent systems uncover what has been concealed inside the world's emergency infrastructure, memory turns dangerous, love becomes proof, and an institution decides that the safest intelligence is one that never learned to remember.

• Memory
• Artificial intelligence
• Human connection