Listen to Your Sister

Calla Williams, 25, has spent years holding her family together after their parents' deaths, raising her younger brothers Dre and Jamie while carrying recurring nightmares of their deaths that she can't shake. When a confrontation at a protest turns violent and unexplainable, the siblings flee to a remote cabin, only to find that the threat pursuing them may be as real as it is impossible to explain.

Neena Viel's debut novel is a speculative horror story about the exhausting weight of protecting the people you love, set against a backdrop of racial violence and family trauma. It blends supernatural dread with sharp, grounded characterization, building toward a reality-bending confrontation at the cabin.