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Chocolate Coating: Dark Ages of the New World
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 9 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world coated in sweetness, the most dangerous act is to taste what lies beneath.
Zone Seven is clean, orderly, and kind, or so the Authority would have you believe. In the New Order, every citizen has a number, a role, and a carefully managed life wrapped in the Authority's great project: the Coating. A civilization built not on force, but on the illusion of comfort.
Kael, number 7-Kappa-19, has always known the difference between chocolate coating and chocolate. But knowing is not the same as surviving.
When a single act of betrayal by his closest friend sends Kael into a locked room with an Authority enforcer, something in him goes permanently quiet and something colder, more precise, takes its place. What emerges is not broken. It is original. And it is dangerous.
Chocolate Coating: Dark Ages of the New World follows Kael's transformation from a watchful, questioning boy into something the Authority never anticipated, a person who cannot be managed, copied, or coated. As he builds an underground of misfits and memory-keepers beneath the regulated streets of Zone Seven, he must decide what he is willing to become, what he is willing to lose, and whether the warmth of one person's loyalty can survive the cold logic he has built around himself.
A dystopian literary novel about identity, betrayal, survival, and the difference between darkness and cruelty.
Not everything sweet is kind. Not everything dark is broken.
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