RESIDUE
Some questions are meant to be answered. Others are meant to own you.
When forensic linguist Maya Rosenthal touches a crime scene, she feels what others can't—the invisible architecture of questions that linger after violence. Unlike the standard evidence of blood spatter and DNA, these patterns pulse against her skin like static electricity. A gift? A curse? Or something else entirely.
After a seemingly random killing in New York City, Maya discovers a terrifying pattern. Ordinary people suddenly committing brutal murders, all with no memory of their actions. All near newly installed digital billboards. All leaving behind the same distinctive linguistic residue.
As Maya races to connect impossible dots, she unearths a corporate conspiracy more insidious than murder—Harmonic Convergence, a technology designed to reshape human consciousness through precisely engineered questions. Its architect: Elias Bishop, the same man connected to her father's "suicide" five years earlier.