In the remote Italian Dolomites, the silence comes first. Sheep stop bleating, bells stop ringing, and even the wind seems to hold its breath. Then the stars begin to fall-not burning, but descending, deliberate and soundless.When a dying shepherd hears his own name spoken back to him in a stolen voice, when a doctor tending to her frail father finds strangers in the village who speak with the voices of the dead, and when whole flocks huddle in mute terror at the ridgelines, it becomes clear: something has arrived.The Visitors do not conquer with weapons. They study. They rehearse. They perfect. With every mimicry, they grow closer to replacing the people they watch-until no one can be certain which faces are real and which are only reflections.In a valley that has thrived for centuries on superstition, ritual, and resilience, Marta Bellini must uncover the rules of this silent invasion before her own voice-and her own name-are stolen.A novel of folkloric horror and cosmic dread, The Skyward Visitors blends alpine folklore, psychological terror, and the suffocating intimacy of isolation to ask a chilling question: When the sky comes down to mirror us, what part of ourselves will it take first?