Shooting Thrusts – When lies fall silent, truths hit harder – Paperback

Shooting Thrusts

When lies fall silent, truths hit harder

In a world changed by a deep-sea anomaly, a lie makes no sound at all.

A truth is different. Spoken, it flies – and it cannot be called back. It has mass, and momentum, and force enough to knock a person down, enough to crush a room. Written, a word stays inert. But signed, a truth becomes something else entirely: a dense glyph that can be held in the hands, set down, stacked, and carried into places where no one else dares to speak.

Lyra is deaf. She does not hear words. She feels them – in vibration, in movement, in the shape they take when they leave a mouth. That is why the government remnants want her. A man they call the Paradox Speaker has named a dawn, nineteen days away, when he will speak a truth so absolute that nothing in its path will survive it. Lyra is the one person who can read, hold, and test a truth without being broken by it, and she is the only one who can get close enough to stop him.

But every truth she signs costs her something. Every glyph she carries is a choice about what she is willing to believe, and what she is willing to let go. As the nineteen days run down, Lyra must follow the Speaker through a city learning to live in silence, a camp of people who have stopped trusting their own voices, and a trail of words that grow heavier the closer she gets to their source.

Shooting Truths is a linguistic thriller about the weight of what we say, the silence of what we cannot prove, and the woman who must decide which truths are worth carrying – and which ones must never be spoken aloud.