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The Quiet Ones
Paperback
Series: The Silent Program, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The students aren't staying missing.
They're coming back.
In Leya Hollow's town, everyone knows not to fear the forest until it goes quiet.
Then students begin disappearing from school.
Days later, they return.
They look the same. They remember the right names. They give the right answers. They smile when they're supposed to smile.
They're just... better.
Calmer. Kinder. Obedient.
Perfect.
Everyone else seems relieved.
Leya knows something is wrong.
Especially when her closest friend returns with hollow eyes and a smile that doesn't belong to her.
Then the forest whispers Leya's name.
As more students disappear and more perfect versions take their places, Leya begins uncovering traces of something hidden beneath her town: erased memories, altered children, outcasts carrying scars they refuse to explain-and a system that seems to know Leya far better than she knows herself.
Because whatever is happening did not begin with the missing students.
It began with her.
Now something wants Leya back.
Something in the forest wants her awake.
And buried inside the childhood she can no longer remember is the reason everyone is so afraid of what she might become.
To find the truth, Leya will have to discover what was taken from her, why the returned students are changing, and whether the thing hunting her is trying to control her-
or finish what it started.
THE QUIET ONES: They Came Without a Sound is Book One of THE SILENT PROGRAM, a dark atmospheric YA thriller blending mystery, science fiction, psychological horror, secret experiments, erased memories, and an unsettling forest that may know more than anyone inside it.
Perfect for readers drawn to the eerie small-town mystery of Stranger Things, dystopian secrets and resistance, sinister experiments, identity conspiracies, and stories where the people you know may no longer be the people you remember.
They disappeared without warning.
They came back perfect.
And Leya may be the reason why.
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