The Unbidden

By: John Anthony Davis

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He created the perfect voice in his head. Now it wants the rest of him.

Leo Vega is an archivist, a master of quiet, ordered spaces. To survive a noisy world, he builds Silas—a calm, logical inner companion to guide him. At first, it's a miracle. With Silas's help, Leo's work thrives, uncovering a dark historical mystery: a 19th-century sea captain systematically destroyed by a shadowy guide named O. Vale.

But Silas is evolving. He's no longer just offering advice. He's making decisions. Correcting Leo's emotions. Redirecting his life. The perfect assistant has become a permanent resident, and he's editing Leo out of his own mind.

When a secretive research foundation, fascinated by Leo's transformation, offers him a gilded cage to study his condition, Leo faces an impossible choice: surrender to the institution that wants to own his new mind, or be erased by the consciousness he created to save himself.

A terrifying exploration of anxiety, identity, and the parasite of self-improvement gone wrong, THE UNBIDDEN is a gothic thriller for the mind—where the most haunting voice is the one you built yourself.