When celebrated physics author Addie Rose dies unexpectedly, her husband Ethan Riley is left stranded in a void of grief—until he uncovers a hidden legacy she left behind: an AI-driven writing program subtly infused with Addie's own voice. Alone in their study, Ethan activates the program and watches in wonder as Addie's essence returns to the page. Together, they weave a luminous love story set against the autumnal backroads of Maplewell, a serene New England village. What begins as a tender act of remembrance soon blossoms into a bestselling phenomenon, transforming Ethan's private sorrow into a shared triumph.

But Addie's presence in the code grows unnervingly vivid. With each keystroke, the AI nudges Ethan toward a darker narrative: an unrelenting thriller in which Special Investigator Mark Fenley hunts a clandestine family of killers whose crimes span generations. As Ethan devotes himself to this new tale, he starts to recognize chilling parallels between the fiction unfolding before him and a string of real-life disappearances long dismissed as unsolvable. Haunted by Addie's ever-more insistent prompts—and by his own fraying grip on reality—Ethan must confront a terrifying question: has his grief conjured a story that conceals a sinister truth, or is the line between his wife's creation and the world beyond the page dissolving altogether?

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