The Midnight Factory

<p><em>This dystopia feels intimate and creeps under the skin.</em> - Reedsy Discovery</p><p></p><h4><strong>Shimmer makes you forget-until it takes everything.</strong></h4><h5><strong>In New Albion numbness is survival.</strong></h5><p></p><p>In the rain-soaked country of New Albion forgetting has become a way of life. Shimmer offers brief escape from fear hunger and grief. It also keeps the population obedient numbed and watched.</p><p>Anouk Walker isn't looking for revolution. She's only trying to survive one dose at a time. But when a late-night raid tears her closest friend away survival is no longer enough. Someone she loves is disappearing inside the Midnight Factory.</p><p>As Anouk searches for a way to bring him back she is forced deeper into a world of state violence institutional control and impossible choices. Memory is fragile. Loyalty is dangerous. Even hope carries a cost. The more she learns the clearer it becomes: escape and control are inseparable-and no one walks free without leaving something behind.</p><p>​​​​​</p><h5><strong>A haunting psychological dystopian novel about addiction oppression and the price of resisting a system built to break you.</strong></h5>