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Complex
It's Scary Outside.
James hasn't stepped outside in over three years.
Agoraphobia has reduced his world to the safety of Apartment 4C in the Portside Meridian, where the hallway beyond his door is as unpredictable as the world outside. From his peephole, James watches the building's tenants come and go. He studies their routines, their conversations, and the fragments of their lives he catches from a distance.
But James doesn't simply observe them.
His mind fills in the blanks.
Every tenant becomes a story. Every encounter becomes a possibility. Every unanswered question gives his imagination something new to work with. In the isolation of his apartment, the lives of strangers become more vivid than his own.
Then something begins to pull James beyond the carefully constructed boundaries of the world he's created for himself.
As his connection to the people around him grows, the stories he's imagined begin to change—and James is forced to confront the difference between what he knows, what he believes, and what he has simply convinced himself is true.
In the Portside Meridian, nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems.
COMPLEX is a psychological novel about isolation, perception, imagination, and the stories we create when we don't have all the answers.
James hasn't stepped outside in over three years.
Agoraphobia has reduced his world to the safety of Apartment 4C in the Portside Meridian, where the hallway beyond his door is as unpredictable as the world outside. From his peephole, James watches the building's tenants come and go. He studies their routines, their conversations, and the fragments of their lives he catches from a distance.
But James doesn't simply observe them.
His mind fills in the blanks.
Every tenant becomes a story. Every encounter becomes a possibility. Every unanswered question gives his imagination something new to work with. In the isolation of his apartment, the lives of strangers become more vivid than his own.
Then something begins to pull James beyond the carefully constructed boundaries of the world he's created for himself.
As his connection to the people around him grows, the stories he's imagined begin to change—and James is forced to confront the difference between what he knows, what he believes, and what he has simply convinced himself is true.
In the Portside Meridian, nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems.
COMPLEX is a psychological novel about isolation, perception, imagination, and the stories we create when we don't have all the answers.
1175 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 27, 2026
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