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The Anchor: A Psychological Science Fiction Thriller
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Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A mind-bending psychological sci-fi thriller for readers of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter and Recursion - where the multiverse isn't an adventure. It's a trap, and it runs on love.
Sixteen-year-old Leo has been the only adult in his house since he was ten. He raises his eight-year-old sister Del, forges the school forms, and hides how often their mother is simply gone. He has survived by needing nothing and reaching for no one.
So when Leo begins waking to lost time - warm milk he never poured, a wound with no cause, whole mornings gone - he does what he always does. He handles it alone.
But the missing hours have a destination. A quiet room a single branch away from his own, where a woman named Mara remembers him, feeds him, and asks nothing at all. To a boy worn down to the bone, it feels like the first safe place he's ever known.
It isn't safe. Mara is an observer, and Leo is her experiment. Every crossing costs him more of his body - and pulls him deeper toward a side he may not be able to leave. The only force strong enough to pull him home is Del: a little girl who still calls for him, still waits, still expects him back.
Which is exactly why Mara intends to make her stop.
To save his sister, Leo will have to turn around inside the one place that finally feels like being wanted - and choose the cold house, the hard mornings, and the ordinary work of staying.
Perfect for fans of: parallel-worlds and many-worlds science fiction, slow-burn psychological suspense, literary sci-fi, and emotionally devastating family thrillers where the stakes are a kitchen, a sister, and a single unbearable choice.
Taut, intimate, and quietly terrifying, The Anchor asks what we owe the people who keep us real - and how far a tired kid will go to be the one who stays.
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