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The Hearth: A Chronicle of the Two Worlds
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A man wakes running through a black forest with no name, no past, and something vast and patient hunting him.
When a stranger's hand pulls him underground, he is carried into an impossible refuge. The Hearth, a settlement of four hundred souls living inside a machine structure so immense that no one has ever walked its end.
The Hearth has one law older than memory:
The Door stays sealed. Outside, the monsters hunt.
But the nameless man arrived empty, and an empty man asks the questions everyone else has learned not to ask.
Why do the monsters stop at every threshold, as though held by an invisible line? Why do the dead leave no bodies? Why do strangers keep stumbling in from the darkness, alive but washed clean of everything they once were?
With a water-stained ledger, he begins the experiments no one else would dare attempt. What he discovers will reveal that the boundary between the two worlds is not what anyone believed, and that the house keeping humanity safe may be holding a deeper secret than anyone realizes.
A chronicle of memory, machines, and what remains of a person when everything else is taken, The Hearth asks what it truly costs to be kept safe
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