The Only Inhabitant

At 5:42 in the morning, a man leaves home for his usual run.The houses are still there. The cars are still parked. The traffic lights still work. The city has not burned, collapsed, or been invaded.But something essential is missing.There are no people in the streets. No dogs behind fences. No birds on the wires. No insects in the grass. No bodies. No signs of panic. No evidence of evacuation.The world remains almost perfectly intact.And he appears to be the only one left inside it.As the silence deepens and the first systems begin to fail, he is forced to do more than survive. He must observe, measure, preserve, and understand a world that has not ended in fire, but has been emptied with impossible precision.The Only Inhabitant is a haunting literary speculative novel about solitude, order, disappearance, and the terrifying question at the center of an abandoned world:Why him?