The Syntax of Silence

About this book

Elias Thorne, a self-taught linguist and former night-shift janitor, is unexpectedly accepted into the prestigious Blackwood Institute for Epigraphy in the fog-drenched mountains of Vermont. Surrounded by the scions of academic dynasties, Elias battles profound impostor syndrome while assigned to the Veritas Project: deciphering the unreadable Aethelgard Codex under the watchful eye of the enigmatic Dr. Aris Thorne. As Elias delves deeper into the ancient text alongside an unlikely archivist ally, he discovers the Codex is not merely a dead language, but a historical manual for selective forgetting. Uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy of linguistic erasure designed to maintain social stability, Elias must navigate treacherous intellectual waters to prevent a looming lexical collapse that threatens to strip humanity of its capacity to express complex emotions and truths.

Book details

Genres:

Dark Academia, Contemporary, Mystery

Language:

en

Published:

2026-03-11

Content rating:

PG