Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
19.05.2026
Verlag
VoidAndVelvetSeitenzahl
864
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/5 cm
Gewicht
1195 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798235435872
"If everyone saw a countdown above their heads, wouldn't someone panic?" Nobody does. On an ordinary Monday at Mercer Ridge High, seventeen-year-old Eli Mercer notices something impossible: for half a second, everyone stops. Nobody remembers it happened. By afternoon, a white countdown appears in the corner of his vision. The next morning, everyone else has one too. Teachers continue assigning homework. Local businesses run promotions. Parents act calm. News anchors smile through explanations that explain nothing. The world doesn't collapse-it adapts. Eli should feel relieved that he isn't alone. Except he is. Because beneath the countdown, Eli hears something no one else can hear: a thin, impossible strand of static hidden underneath ordinary life. Until his boyfriend Noah hears it too. Careful, observant, and unwilling to accept easy answers, Eli and Noah begin documenting the phenomenon before the town forgets how strange it is. Alongside their fiercely practical friends, they uncover abandoned infrastructure, missing records, disappearing conversations, and evidence that Mercer Ridge may have been built around something no one remembers choosing. But as the countdown shrinks and reality starts sorting people into categories instead of understanding them, Eli faces a question more terrifying than the end of the world: If something could remove fear, pain, uncertainty-and replace them with perfect peace- what would it take from you in return? A haunting YA speculative thriller layered with mystery, quiet horror, emotional intimacy, and a deeply human queer love story, STATIC IN THE MARROW explores memory, identity, language, and what it means to remain yourself when the world offers easier versions of who you could become.
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