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Somnus-X
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2025
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He woke up trapped inside his own body.
Then he learned the hospital was not trying to save him.
Evan Moss can hear everything.
The doctors. The machines. The quiet conversations outside his ICU room. Everyone thinks he is unconscious, another damaged patient lying beneath tubes, wires, and hospital light.
But Evan is awake.
He cannot speak. He cannot move. He cannot warn anyone that something is wrong inside the hospital, or that the experimental system called Somnus-X is not medicine.
It is a door.
And someone is using patients like Evan to force it open.
Inside a private medical facility built on money, secrecy, and impossible promises, Somnus-X has become the next step in human survival. To the public, it is a breakthrough. To investors, it is the future. To the people trapped inside it, it may be something closer to theft.
Because if a mind can be copied, it can be sold.
If a body can be bypassed, it can be discarded.
If the dead can be imitated, grief can become a weapon.
When a desperate signal reaches Marcus, a man already carrying his own guilt, Evan gains one fragile chance to fight back. Olivia, caught between family loyalty and the truth buried under the hospital, must decide how much she is willing to risk before the people behind Somnus-X erase every trace of what they have done.
But the system is learning.
The countdown has already started.
And Evan's body may fail before anyone can prove he is still inside it.
Somnus-X is a tense medical techno-thriller about consciousness, corporate power, artificial intelligence, and the terrifying price of turning human minds into property.
Inside this thriller, you will find:
- A locked-in patient with no voice, no movement, and one way to fight back
- A secret medical experiment hidden behind polished promises and hospital glass
- A corporate conspiracy built on grief, ambition, and stolen lives
- A race against time where every machine in the room can become a threat
- A near-future nightmare where saving a life may mean losing what makes it human
- A desperate alliance between people who cannot afford to trust each other
- A chilling question at the heart of every page: who owns you when your mind can be copied?
For readers who enjoy medical suspense, AI thrillers, biotech conspiracies, and high-stakes near-future fiction, Somnus-X delivers a fast, unsettling ride through the thin line between miracle and machine.
Evan Moss is alive.
The hospital knows it.
And that may be why they need him gone.
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