The Midnight Factory

"This dystopia feels intimate and creeps under the skin." — Reedsy Discovery

Shimmer makes you forget—until it takes everything.

In New Albion, obedience comes at a price.

Anouk Walker has never been good at following the rules. Sharp-tongued, stubbornly loyal and dependent on shimmer, the drug that helps keep New Albion compliant, she's trying to survive in a world where almost everyone has learned to look the other way.

But Anouk has people she cares about, and some of them are in danger.

The Midnight Factory is one of the State's most closely guarded institutions. Few know what happens inside. As Anouk becomes involved with the Resistance, she understands how much of New Albion depends on the Factory, and how little she really knows about those who oppose the State.

Anouk has good reason to distrust authority. The trouble is, the people offering her a way out have secrets of their own.

The Midnight Factory is a psychological dystopian novel about addiction, loyalty and the compromises people make when survival is no longer enough.

Book One of The Shimmerfall Trilogy. Anouk's story continues in Synthetic State, available now.