Everything that Lingers: A Near Future, Speculative Fiction Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241293459)

What if you could sense everything people try to hide, before they ever speak a word?Everything That Lingers is a literary psychological novel set in the near future, following Vydehi, a researcher whose life changes after she undergoes a cutting-edge sensory augmentation that sharpens her sense of smell beyond human limits. With it comes an unexpected consequence: emotions, memories, illness, and deception now announce themselves in the air around her.
Everything That Lingers is a quiet, immersive exploration of memory, grief, and responsibility, where perception itself becomes a moral challenge, and every sensed truth asks a dangerous question: just because you can know something, should you?

Inside This Intimate Psychological Novel, You'll Discover:

• Perception as Power: How augmented awareness reshapes identity, empathy, and trust.
• Memory in the Body: The way scent carries grief, love, and unfinished history.
• The Cost of Knowing: When heightened insight turns closeness into exposure.
• Ethics Without Rules: Navigating consent, care, and truth in a world just beyond our own.
• A Woman Between Worlds: Following Vy as she learns what it means to stay human while becoming something more.

Who Is This For?

• Readers of literary fiction with psychological depth
• Fans of near-future and speculative novels grounded in emotion
• Book club readers who enjoy slow-burn, thought-provoking stories
• Those drawn to themes of memory, identity, and moral ambiguity
• Anyone fascinated by how technology reshapes the most intimate parts of being human

What would you do if the world revealed itself to you, completely, constantly, and without mercy?Click "Buy Now" to enter a story where memory lingers, truth has a scent, and knowing comes at a cost.

Author: Rayn Starr
ISBN-13: 9798241293459
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 12/26/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d