When Shadows Bear Names

In When Shadows Bear Names, sixteen-year-old Tammo has been seeing shadows since the night of the power outage — shadows that do not move the way they should, shadows that follow too late, stop too long, and appear near people whose lives seem to be quietly slipping toward danger. At first, Tammo wants only one thing: to protect his younger brother Fiete, whose life depends on a breathing device and whose vulnerability has made Tammo grow up faster than he should have had to. But the more Tammo tries to ignore what he sees, the deeper he is drawn into a web of vanished files, old guilt, hidden warnings and a town that has learned to look away from the truth. As Light Night approaches, every sign becomes more threatening, every silence more deliberate, and every shadow seems to carry a name that someone once tried to erase. A dark, emotional young adult novel about fear, friendship, family, responsibility and the painful question of how far you are allowed to go when you are trying to save someone you love.