Splintered

Sera Marenne has always lived in the quiet spaces between certainty and fear—trying to be steady, composed, unnoticeable. But when pieces of her memory begin to vanish and her reflection stops matching her face, Sera is forced to confront a truth she has spent years avoiding. Mira, the confident and sharp-edged shadow living inside her mind, is no longer content to remain unseen. As Sera's world bends and fractures, the boundary between the real and the imagined blurs. Whispers seep through mirrors, time slips in and out of focus, and the people she trusts begin to notice the inconsistencies—especially Leon, Dahlia, and the cryptic figures who seem to know more about her past than she does. When repressed memories finally surface, revealing the moment her identity splintered, Sera must face the impossible: the self she has tried to bury is the only one who has ever protected her. But as Sera and Mira edge toward a union neither fully understands, the question becomes not who will survive… but who they will become. A quiet, atmospheric psychological novel about identity, memory, and the shadows we create to survive.