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The Broken Web
Paperback
Series: The Hollow Honey, Book 2
FantasyMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781996819241
Publisher: John Hempstock
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Maya Chen thought exposing corporate environmental warfare would be enough. She was wrong.
Six months after revealing Synthesis Corporation's contamination of magical ecosystems, Maya has built a global network documenting systematic elimination of traditional knowledge communities. But corporate forces aren't retreating-they're escalating. Armed mercenaries hunt her through underground sanctuaries. Specialized technology targets consciousness networks themselves. And the Great Mother Hive, the foundational source of all North American magical ecosystems, faces imminent destruction.
Racing against coordinated elimination operations, Maya discovers that protecting traditional knowledge requires capabilities beyond human resistance alone. Water keepers, earth spirits, and forest guardians-conscious natural systems dismissed by conventional science-offer unprecedented alliance. But accepting their partnership means acknowledging a truth that threatens everything: magic isn't mysterious power. It's biological intelligence operating at scales humanity has refused to recognize.
As corporate forces close in on the Great Mother Hive, Maya must coordinate consciousness itself-integrating human knowledge with natural awareness to create resistance capabilities that exceed systematic elimination technology. The expedition to protect the foundational source becomes a test of whether collaborative consciousness can survive against forces designed to destroy the very possibility of partnership between humans and the living world.
From hidden archives to wilderness warfare, from institutional conspiracy to ecosystem intelligence, Maya's investigation evolves into something unprecedented: teaching biological systems and human communities that the web connecting all life isn't broken-it's fighting back.
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