WHEN THE WORLD GOES QUIET: Some echoes fade. linger. guide you forward.

When the world goes quiet, the mind gets louder.Las Vegas homicide detective Riley Vega knows a pattern when she sees one. But when a series of disturbing deaths begins pointing toward an abandoned psychological research program, the case takes a turn neither she nor forensic specialist Dr. Sienna Torres could have anticipated.The victims have something in common: they were all connected to an experimental program designed to test the limits of human perception, memory, and emotional control.Someone is bringing that experiment back.As Riley and Sienna follow the trail, they uncover a hidden chamber, a sequence of psychological lessons, and a killer known only as Patient Zero-a man who seems to understand Sienna in ways no stranger should.Then Sienna begins experiencing something she calls the bleed: an unsettling ability to recognize patterns before they happen.The deeper they go, the harder it becomes to separate manipulation from intuition-and memory from reality.Patient Zero isn't simply hunting his victims.He's following a pattern.And Sienna may be the only person capable of completing it.When the World Goes Quiet is a psychological thriller about perception, control, survival, and the terrifying consequences of discovering that your mind may know more than you're ready to understand.