The Ghost Engine Chronicles

When paramedics Mara Nunez and Jace Scott respond to a routine collapse at Wren Grocery, they find seventy-two-year-old Evelyn Rourke sitting upright, alert-and registering zero on every medical device.
No pulse. No blood pressure. No breath.
Yet Evelyn is speaking.
She claims she has returned from a place between life and death-but she did not return alone.
Soon, the hospital begins admitting patients who do not exist. Forgotten voices borrow the living, sealed records reveal decades of erased identities, and an impossible passage connects Room 18 to the hidden spaces beneath Wren Grocery.
Mara discovers she can anchor the dead by witnessing who they truly were. Jace learns that some souls do not need to be seen-they need to be guided home. Together with Evelyn, they must recover the identity of a lost child before the voices beyond the threshold forget they were ever separate.
Because something has been listening.
Something has been learning.
And it no longer intends to remain on the other side.
A supernatural horror novella about memory, identity, and the terrifying cost of being forgotten, Zero is the first installment in The Ghost Chronicles series.