Obsidian Glass
Paperback
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Mar 6 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Apex is not a hotel. It is a vault.
Perched on a storm-lashed cliff in the North Sea, the brutalist structure offers wealthy guests absolute privacy-and a secret service that no one advertises. The walls don't just have ears; they have memory. Built with conductive concrete and neural lattice technology, the building records the emotional residue of its inhabitants, promising a form of digital immortality to those who can afford it.
Journalist Kenji Sato arrives at The Apex to investigate a cold case that the world has largely forgotten: the mysterious death of tech visionary Malik Al-Fayed and celebrated artist Elena Vance. Officially, it was a tragic murder-suicide in Room 704. But when Kenji checks in, he discovers the room hasn't forgotten them. The air is charged with static. The mirrors hold reflections that shouldn't exist. And at midnight, the argument begins again.
Kenji soon realizes that the ghosts of Room 704 are not supernatural-they are data. Malik and Elena are trapped in a high-fidelity loop, reliving their final moments to power a machine they tried to destroy.
As Kenji digs deeper, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from the frozen fjords of Norway to the glass towers of London and the hidden bunkers of the French Alps. Victor Sterling, the ruthless industrialist behind the hotel, isn't just recording memories for posterity; he is harvesting human consciousness to create a Sanctuary that is nothing more than a digital prison.
Hunted by corporate mercenaries and guided by the fragmented echoes of the dead, Kenji must race to find the source code before the Migration begins-a protocol that will beam every captured soul into the void of deep space.
Obsidian Glass is a cinematic, heart-pounding technothriller about the ethics of memory, the corruption of grief, and the terrifying realization that in a world where death is treated as a data loss error, the only true freedom is silence.
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