Ross Ingerson

Author · Central Illinois

Cover of The Quiet Hour: a lighthouse beam over dark water under a starry sky

The debut novel

The Quiet Hour

One hour a night, no one is watching.

In 2109, nobody in Lakeshore City dies all the way.

Ines Calder rebuilds the dead for a living. She has given a thousand grieving families back their husbands, mothers and children. She has never rebuilt her own husband, Theo, lost when the Kenosha seawall failed.

Then an old man arrives with a paper letter and an impossible request: preserve his wife before the drift takes her. LucĂ­a has no data. She is a Quiet, one of the last people who never let anyone record her life.

The job will lead Ines to a secret buried beneath her own tower, and to a fight for the one hour each night when every machine goes dark.

Science fictionPublished Nov 2, 2026334 pagesPaperback & Kindle

About the author

Ross Ingerson lives in central Illinois. He wrote The Quiet Hour from a place he knows too well: the long, quiet work of loving someone after they’re gone.

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