In a world where guilt manifests as living shadows, silence becomes deadly.When surgeon Dr. James Chen's medical mistake kills a child, a dark figure appears in his operating room. Teacher Andrew Pemberton's cruelty drives a student to suicide, and something impossible begins haunting his classroom. Across the globe, those carrying unconfessed guilt discover that their secrets have taken shape as tall, impossibly thin shadows that demand one thing: truth.The shadows spread like wildfire. They cannot be fought, cannot be hidden from, and cannot be reasoned with. They simply wait, patient and persistent, until confession comes or death arrives. Politicians, corporate executives, and ordinary people with buried crimes all find themselves haunted by manifestations of their own guilt.Dr. Helena Marsh races to understand the phenomenon as civilization teeters on the brink. But when her own shadow appears, she realizes the shadows aren't targeting individuals; they're forcing humanity itself to transform. Confess and adapt, or resist and face extinction.Some choose honesty. Some choose death. All discover that the shadows are just the beginning.A psychological horror novel about the price of silence, the cost of truth, and what happens when humanity can no longer hide from its own capacity for harm.They come from what you never said. And they won't leave until you speak.