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A Parallel Life: Awoken By a Lamp
Paperback
Series: A Parallel Life, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: R. Nick
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if the life you woke into was never meant to be yours?
After a violent accident, Nicholas wakes into a world that feels complete-and impossibly wrong. He has a wife who knows him too well, children who love him without question, and a home filled with the quiet weight of shared history. Yet fragments of another life cling to him: a rain-soaked road, blinding headlights, and a memory that refuses to stay buried.
As days pass, Nicholas begins to sense fractures beneath the surface of this perfect existence. Small inconsistencies grow louder. Familiar objects behave strangely. A red lamp, unmoving yet watchful, becomes a silent reminder that reality may not be as stable as it appears.
Torn between the comfort of a life that feels earned and the pull of a truth that threatens to erase everything he's come to cherish, Nicholas must decide what it means to be awake-and what it costs to remember.
A Parallel Life: Awoken By a Lamp is a psychological literary novel about memory, identity, and the fragile boundary between dreaming and waking. Quietly unsettling and emotionally resonant, it explores how far the mind will go to protect itself-and what happens when it can no longer tell which world is real.
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