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Guardians of the Ark: Crossing The Line
Paperback
Series: Guardians of the Ark, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a quiet farming town, something is wrong with reality.
Fish appear where they shouldn't.
Storms form without warning.
And a man named Carl is beginning to realize the world doesn't behave the way it's supposed to.
Eli knows why.
He's a Guardian-part of a hidden system tasked with protecting entire worlds from collapse. Where others see coincidence, Eli sees something far more dangerous:
Someone learning how to change the rules.
As Carl experiments-pushing further, harder, refusing to be controlled-reality starts to bend. Not just around him, but around everyone. Belief spreads. Small disturbances become patterns. Patterns become truth.
And once enough people accept something... the world stops resisting it.
Now Eli faces a problem no Guardian is meant to handle alone:
Contain Carl before the damage becomes irreversible...
or risk creating something even the Guardians can't stop.
Because Carl isn't trying to destroy the world.
He's trying to understand it.
And he's not the only one who's starting to ask the wrong questions.
Book One of the Guardians of the Ark series-where reality is shaped by belief, and crossing the line is easier than coming back.
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