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Holdfast
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781919555522
Publisher: Blackwood Publishing
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 446
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some voices don't fade. They wait.
On the storm-wracked coast of the North Sea, radio operator Gareth Ellison intercepts a woman's voice that should not exist.
The message repeats with small differences. The timestamp is wrong. The final warning changes everything:
This isn't my voice.
Elsewhere, Elias finds his ledger recording lives he has never lived. Mara. Emil. Celeste. Names written in his own hand, each one carrying memories that do not belong to him.
In a locked house deep among the pines, Rowan Kane discovers a journal bearing her name, dated tomorrow.
Salt seeps through walls. Broadcasts return years after they were recorded. Footsteps move where no one walks.
The Archive is no longer silent.
And it remembers differently each time.
Holdfast is Book Four of The Archive Files: a slow-burning folk horror novel about memory, repetition, grief, impossible transmissions, and the voices that shape us when we are not listening. Strange, atmospheric, literary, and inevitable.
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