This time last year, I was planning my funeral. I’d decided I wanted to be cremated to save my family the expense.
Chemo and radiation had failed, and the cancer was advancing. I was using a feeding tube because I couldn’t even swallow my own saliva. I was lying in bed wasting away and living on pain meds. I remember asking God for the strength to accept what was coming.
During that time, one of the things that kept me going was writing. I didn’t have the strength to sit at my computer, so I wrote in my WhatsApp and emailed myself paragraphs from my phone.
Then came the laryngectomy. I lost my natural voice and now breathe through my neck, but the surgery saved my life. As soon as I felt strength returning, I went back to my computer and kept writing.
Today, I get to share a small win: I finished my book. My proof copy from Amazon arrived a few days ago, and holding it felt like holding evidence that I didn’t just survive. It is proof that I’m thriving.
It’s a speculative‑fiction psychological thriller, the world I escaped into when my own world was collapsing. I’m already editing book two and building this into a series.
I’m excited to finally share the cover and blurb for the book that carried me through that season.
You’ve felt it. How fast people turn. How every word feels wired to ignite.
You tell yourself it’s just the world changing. That it is stress, politics or historical wounds.
But what if the fracture you’re living through wasn’t natural at all?
What if it was engineered?Dr. Marcus Kane accepts a prestigious new post and an even more secretive research initiative promising to bridge social divides. All he has to do is assemble a team and follow instructions without question. Instead, he is thrust into a dangerous, mind-bending mission.
Meanwhile, two neuroscientists detect the impossible: a silent frequency embedded in the human brain and perfectly in sync with every human nervous system. Their findings mirror what Dr. Kane and his team begin to see on the ground.
Violence spreads from isolated incidents to coordinated unrest. Containment zones multiply across major cities. Ideological extremism ignites overnight. Officials call it unrest and dismiss it as random human behavior. But Kane begins to uncover a pattern, an unseen influence that distorts perception, amplifies fear, crystallizes anger, and hardens them into conviction.
The chaos is not spontaneous.
It is being tuned.
And someone is holding the dial.Caught between a corporation that knows more than it admits and a world spiraling toward collapse, Kane begins to see reality fracture around him. And with every shift, one truth becomes harder to ignore: the system isn’t just manipulating the world. It’s rewriting him.
Because the most effective weapon doesn’t force obedience.
It convinces you the choice was yours.
And by the time you realize you’ve been influenced—
you’ve already chosen a side.
DISTORTION is perfect for readers who love the unsettling realism of Black Mirror and the tension of Dark Matter.
Book One of The Fault Line Series.
Thank you for reading. If you’d like to step into the world that helped carry me through my hardest season, Distortion is now available on Amazon.
Distortion: A Speculative Thriller Novella: Hewitt, Stacy-Ann: 9798247520986: Amazon.com: Books