Early Reviewers S.D. Rhodes

Scout pilot Tara Venn was sent ahead of the colony ships to read the surface of Ilyr and decide whether humans could land there.

Then her ship breaks apart in the atmosphere.

Alone, injured, and cut off from orbit, Tara wakes in a world of black marsh, towering root-forests, and mist thick enough to make every sound feel close. Her beacon will not connect. Her ship is burning behind her. And somewhere beyond the wreck, something is moving through the trees.

At first, she tells herself it is wildlife.

Then she hears her name.

Ilyr is not empty. It is not waiting to be claimed. It has rules, routes, warnings, and predators that understand sound better than any human alive. Every step Tara takes pulls her deeper into a world where silence is survival, mistakes travel farther than screams, and the wrong answer can bring something out of the dark.

If Tara cannot reach the colony ships in time, the others will descend blind.

And on Ilyr, blind is how humans die.

Atmospheric, relentless, and terrifying, What Hears You is a sci-fi survival horror novel about first contact, intelligent predators, and the nightmare of being heard by something that should not know your voice.