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Following Shadows on the Light
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Open Lantern Press
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 728
Weight: 2.11
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Following Shadows on the Light is a literary political and psychological thriller exploring how a democratic society can gradually surrender its freedoms through fear, propaganda, tribalism, technological surveillance, and the seductive comfort of certainty.
Historian Daniel Alvarez watches as charismatic political leader Adrian Vale transforms a movement built around hope, belonging, and national renewal into something increasingly intolerant of questions and dissent. As institutions, communities, families, and even history itself become contested ground, Daniel and an unlikely network of journalists, teachers, librarians, soldiers, former loyalists, and ordinary citizens begin preserving the evidence others are learning to forget.
At the center of their struggle is a forbidden manuscript known as The Book of Light, passed from one generation to another as a warning against unquestioned authority.
Blending political suspense, psychological drama, technology, history, and dystopian fiction, Following Shadows on the Light examines not only how democratic institutions can fail, but how ordinary people can recognize manipulation, preserve memory, question certainty, and rebuild the mechanisms that allow a free society to correct itself.
This is Book I of the Following Shadows on the Light trilogy.
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