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A Liminal Resonance
Paperback
Series: Echoes of Nothing, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Echo is gone. Its architecture is not.
The dome city is open for the first time in a generation. What no one anticipated is how little that changes. A system built to manage emotion left its shape behind - in the walls, in the logs, in the habits of citizens who can no longer tell which of their feelings were ever their own.
Elara Venn escaped. Beyond the wall she finds Nya, her grandmother and the last matriarch of an Order the dome was built to erase, and a lineage older than the Agency that made an instrument out of her. What Nya offers is not power. It's a practice - one with a cost, and a specific, terrible use.
Kael Ardyn escaped with her. He carries a capacity he never agreed to, and a debt that has not yet come due.
Inside the dome, a log-keeper named Tali documents a city trying to remember how to feel without supervision, and finds that recovery and collapse look identical from the inside.
And Hale - the architect, patient beyond reason - is still alive. The instruction at the root of everything is still where they laid it.
Elara knows what she was built for. She intends to use it anyway.
A Liminal Resonance is the second book in the Echoes of Nothing series - literary dystopian fiction about consent, inheritance, and what it costs to undo something from the inside.
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