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The Second Serpent
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781764429306
Publisher: Tony Carlisle
Published: Dec 6 2025
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Harper Vale wakes in a corridor she never entered, she discovers a world humming beneath her own-an impossible machinery of light, memory, and intention. The walls breathe. The shadows listen. And something vast has begun to stir.
Guided by the Watcher, a being of fractured gold, Harper learns that the universe she knows is only a rendered layer of a greater system-one built by the Architect, enforced by the Observer, and haunted by what they failed to erase.
Because the First Serpent, a creature born before definition and before reality was forced into shape, remembers her.
Not the Harper she is now.
The one she was before the world chose a form for her.
As the machinery tries to correct her existence and collapse her into something it can understand, Harper becomes the impossible contradiction the system was never designed to hold. And every step she takes pulls her closer to a truth powerful enough to fracture the foundations of creation.
To survive, Harper must confront the Serpent's awakening-
and decide whether she is meant to save this world...
or end it.
A haunting, mind-bending descent into identity, fate, and the terrifying beauty of a reality built on observation. Perfect for fans of annihilation-style cosmic horror and metaphysical thrillers.
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