Sufficient

The most careful eye leaves the deepest mark.

Lucia Balestri notices what others miss. It's made her one of Italy's most trusted engineers.

Now something has started noticing her back.

In Venice, the city of slow decay, nothing is decaying. Lagoon sensors are agreeing too perfectly. Walls that should be crumbling hold steady. The water rises and falls with mechanical precision, as if the tide has learned what's expected of it.

Lucia flags the anomaly and moves on — until an urgent summons pulls her south. Rome needs her. Beneath the ancient streets, excavations have stalled. The ground has gone impossibly still. Cracks close overnight. Voids refuse to shift. Readings that should scatter are settling into patterns too clean to trust.

The engineers are unsettled. The workers are frightened. And the deeper Lucia looks, the more everything seems to be looking back.

Book One of The Observation Series. Literary horror set in contemporary Venice and Rome.

"What remained was stable, and that was considered sufficient."