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The Last Wall Of Ivy
Paperback
Series: The Invisible Architect Trilogy, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 18 2026
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a city engineered for perfect peace, a single emotion becomes rebellion.
Aethelgard is a miracle of the future-a vertical city grown inside a colossal bio-engineered tree. Violence has been evolved out of humanity through Bio-Tuning. Conflict no longer exists. Anger has been softened. Grief is calibrated. Even love arrives measured and safe.
The city breathes in harmony.
Until a botanist is found strangled by a vine that was programmed never to harm.
Elara Vey is a Root-Whisperer-an analyst who listens to the city's living data network known as the Spore-Sync. When the death is ruled an accident by the city's governing AI, Verdant, Elara detects something the system cannot suppress:
Fear.
Real, untuned fear.
As she descends into the hidden Deep Roots beneath Aethelgard, Elara uncovers a secret buried within the tree's ancient rings-a truth about the citizens who were recalibrated and the cost of maintaining artificial peace.
Now she must make an impossible choice:
Preserve the serenity of a flawless society...
Or release the emotions humanity was never meant to lose.
Blending lush Solarpunk world-building with high-concept science fiction, The Last Wall of Ivy is a philosophical thriller about control, memory, and the fragile boundary between perfection and freedom.
For readers of cerebral sci-fi, techno-mystery, and speculative fiction that asks:
What is the price of peace?
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