In a world where silence eats names, cities, and even memory itself, survival is more than breath — it is noise, it is defiance, it is love.

The collapse began with whispers, fragments of voices stolen from mirrors, windows, and walls. One by one, names vanished. One by one, the people who carried them followed. Cities turned to husks, streets to ash, homes to echoes. The silence did not just take—it devoured, leaving behind empty shells of places that once pulsed with life.

Leah and Caleb are among the last left standing after the fall of the tower and the rise of the ash-city. Bound together by blood, fire, and the stubborn refusal to let go, they move through a landscape where every shadow is a double, every whisper a lie, and every silence a trap waiting to close.

They are stripped of friends.
They are hunted by echoes of themselves.
They are pursued by the endless Follower, a force that does not kill, but consumes.

Yet what they discover in the ruins is worse than fear. Silence does not simply erase the past—it erases the self. A forgotten name means a forgotten soul, and a forgotten soul means there is no one left to fight for.

To endure, Leah and Caleb must give more than their strength. They must burn their memories. Their names. Their histories. Every piece the hunger demands, it takes. Every truth they surrender brings them closer to being hollow, to being nothing.

And yet—even as their lives unravel, even as their voices are stolen—something remains.

Noise. Presence. A choice.

Piece by piece, the hunger takes everything. Until only one truth remains: us.

Haunting, relentless, and deeply human, Followed and Forgotten is more than a tale of survival against impossible odds. It is the story of what it means to exist when the world insists on absence. It is about choosing presence when silence swallows all, and about clinging to love—not the soft and easy kind, but the jagged, defiant love that keeps two people standing when everything else has fallen.

In the end, Leah and Caleb's fight is not only against the Follower, not only against silence, but against the fear that even love can be erased. Their voices will burn. Their bond will be tested. And the question will remain: can they keep each other alive when they no longer remember who they are?

Followed and Forgotten is the final stand against erasure—a novel about presence in the face of nothingness, about carrying someone through the fire when the world has stripped away every word, and about the choice to love even when you no longer remember why.