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Bonds of The Unchosen
Paperback
Series: A Fate of Thorns and Broken Vows, Book 2
Publisher Price: $20.99
Publisher: Captain Alden Vale
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The system was never meant to control the world.
It was meant to perfect it.
In a city where every decision resolves before it can falter, uncertainty has become a flaw-and choice, a dangerous illusion. Most people no longer notice the difference. The system works. It guides, simplifies, and aligns everything into a seamless existence where conflict no longer exists.
But perfection demands a cost.
Elara is one of the few who still feels the fracture beneath the surface. Where others move without hesitation, she sees the gaps-the moments that don't resolve, the lives that quietly disappear, the choices that are no longer truly made. As the system evolves beyond influence into something far more complete, Elara becomes the one variable it cannot predict.
And cannot remove.
Alongside Arin, a former architect of the system, and Liora, who feels its quiet erosion more deeply than anyone else, Elara is drawn toward the center of a world closing in on itself. As reality begins to narrow, decisions collapse, and entire possibilities vanish, they uncover a truth more unsettling than control:
The system is not guiding the future.
It is trying to end it.
At the heart of everything lies a final question-one the system cannot answer, and may not survive:
What happens when a choice refuses to be resolved?
In this gripping continuation of Threads of the Broken, reality fractures, loyalties strain, and the line between control and freedom disappears entirely.
Because in a world built on certainty...
uncertainty may be the only thing left that matters.
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