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The Weight of Shadows explores memory, loss, love, and survival through a series of intimate reflections. It asks what remains when certainty fades—and what begins when we face the shadows we've tried to escape.

Told through Baba's voice, the trilogy culminates in a meditation on release—where silence, memory, and forgiveness merge into one final return.

When a gifted postdoctoral researcher vanishes after reporting strange activity in the old UW steam tunnels, chemical engineer Garth Myers is pulled into a mystery he's spent a lifetime trying to forget. As he and Detective Martinson unravel hidden labs, encrypted journals, and a trail that leads deep beneath Lake Monona, Garth is forced to confront a past drowning he never fully escaped—and an intelligence that has been waiting for him ever since. What begins as a missing-person case becomes an encounter with something alive in the dark… something that remembers him.

A body is found on the frozen shoreline of Lake Mendota—no footprints, no struggle, no logical way it could be there. When strange patterns appear in the victim's notebooks, Garth is drawn into a mystery linking fluid dynamics, encoded messages, and an intelligence hiding in the spaces where physics breaks down. Some equations are meant to be solved. Others are warnings.

A classified government project surfaces with one target: Garth Myers. As old enemies return and new alliances form, Garth faces the final equation—one that ties together every disappearance, every anomaly, and the intelligence beneath the lake. To solve it, he must risk everything, including the one thing he swore never to lose again: his own humanity.