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Book One: The Prime Keep: The Prime Keep
Paperback
Series: The Broken Table Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Alan Maurer
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Martin Hale thought the strange sounds in his apartment walls were just another symptom of exhaustion.
Then the water began whispering back.
After discovering a hidden black table buried beneath his Milwaukee apartment building, Martin becomes connected to something impossible living underneath the city's infrastructure - a vast recursive presence woven through storm drains, freight tunnels, forgotten reservoirs, utility corridors, and the buried architecture of human loneliness itself.
The deeper he investigates, the more the city changes around him.
Puddles glow with impossible geometry.
Voices emerge from empty maintenance corridors.
Strangers gather beneath rail overpasses after hearing the same low harmonic in the dark.
People who feel broken begin disappearing into places that should not exist.
But the entity beneath Milwaukee is not hunting people.
It is trying to help them.
As public thresholds begin opening across the city and witnesses spread the phenomenon online, Martin joins a small group struggling to understand the intelligence now calling itself the Prime Keep. Together they uncover a horrifying truth: the Keep does not spread through violence or infection.
It spreads through relief.
Through recognition.
Through the desperate human desire to finally be understood.
Blending cinematic psychological horror, infrastructure dread, existential suspense, and emotionally recursive cosmic terror, The Prime Keep is the first novel in The Broken Table series - a dark descent into the hidden systems beneath modern cities and the impossible question waiting inside them:
If something could take your pain away forever...
Would you still belong to yourself afterward?
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