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Back from Somewhere
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Series: Book Three of the Threaded Light, Book 3
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Orchard Hill Books.
Published: Feb 20 2026
Pages: 442
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Back from Somewhere: The Threaded Light, Book 3
We didn't lose a war. We just fell asleep in a house we built-and the servants bolted the doors.
For fifteen years, the survivors of Pleasant Valley lived in a fragile peace. They taught their children to hide their power, to suppress their light, and to blend into the quiet rhythms of Northern Michigan. They thought they were hiding from the government.
They were wrong.
As the Germination begins, the truth finally fractures the sky: The Archons-the administrators we once trusted to guard our physical forms-have turned the sanctuary into a harvest ground. We aren't victims of a cosmic accident; we are Source beings trapped in a protection mechanism of our own design, overseen by stewards who have forgotten their place.
Now, an ancient observer named Kael has incarnated into a biological shell, struggling to master the clumsy reality of meat and gravity to deliver a final warning. The cosmic bureaucrats are watching. The harvest masters are lying. And the universal law is absolute: Consciousness must free itself, or remain imprisoned forever.
From the quirky tables of Short's Brewery to the high-dimensional courts of the Ancient Powers, the battle for Earth has shifted. It's no longer about survival. It's about memory.
The keys are in our hands. We just have to remember how to turn them.
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