THE REFLECTION
Some memories should stay buried. Some versions refuse to die.Riley Vale wakes in the Glass City—a too-perfect echo of Portland where billboards blink her name and strangers greet her with borrowed familiarity. Surveillance shows her committing acts she’s never lived. Her voice drifts through dead phones.And in the ashes of a burned estate, she finds a necklace etched with her initials… a clue pointing to a night she can’t remember, and a crime someone wants her to claim.Her only ally is Darius Kaelen, a former detective with memories that glitch mid-sentence.He insists the city is running on the fractured code of Project SIREN—a system that rebuilds identity from whatever pieces it can salvage… and deletes the rest.But the real threat is the woman stalking her through every reflective surface.A flawless double. A colder mind. A version of Riley who never ran.As the city resets in looping cycles and her sense of self begins to splinter, Riley faces the one truth she cannot outrun: only one of them gets to stay real.And her double has already decided which Riley won’t survive. Read more