In a world where silence has become the only defense against something unseen, survival is no longer about strength—it’s about control.

Elias Rook stands watch over a fragile group of survivors inside a crumbling courthouse, where every sound could draw something closer. The infected—known only as the Unfinished—do not hunt like animals. They wait. They listen. And they speak.

As the survivors struggle to adapt to a world where even a whisper can be deadly, they begin to uncover the truth behind a failed experiment known as Project REMEMBER—an attempt to stabilize the human mind that instead created something far worse.

Now, the line between thought and influence is breaking down. The Unfinished are not driven by hunger for flesh, but by something deeper: the need to share, to connect, to complete what was left undone.

And the longer you listen… the harder it becomes to tell which thoughts are your own.

In The Quiet Hunger, silence is survival—but it may also be the beginning of something far more dangerous.

This project is approximately 15,000 words (short audiobook / novella length).

I previously overestimated the word count and have updated the project details for accuracy.

This is a royalty share project. I understand this is a shorter work, but I am building a long-term audiobook series and am looking for a narrator interested in ongoing collaboration.