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The Map of Lost Identities
Paperback
Publisher: Jamila Williams
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Amelia Hayes has spent fourteen months trying to hold her broken family together after her father's death. Drawing the world around her is the only way she knows how to keep reality from slipping away. But when she discovers a mysterious origami boat caught among the reeds of an overflowing creek, she finds something far more disturbing than an ordinary piece of paper. A name appears in blood-red ink across its impossible, water-resistant surface: Beckett Hayes, the name of her eleven-year-old brother.Soon, Amelia realizes that something terrible is happening to Beckett. His body is growing unnaturally cold, his reflection is beginning to disappear, and the people closest to him are gradually forgetting that he ever existed. Even their mother no longer recognizes her own son. As Beckett's identity fades from photographs, belongings, and family memories, Amelia understands that she is running out of time to save him.Determined not to lose the last person she has left, Amelia follows the mysterious paper boat into a hidden world beyond the boundaries of ordinary reality. There, an impossible landscape of forgotten islands, petrified forests, drowned harbors, and abandoned histories reveals itself. The strange sanctuary is home to erased identities and discarded realities-everything the waking world has forgotten or allowed to disappear.Armed with her father's old pocket watch, a brass compass, and the mysterious map that continues to reveal its secrets, Amelia must navigate a dangerous realm where names possess extraordinary power and memories can become physical things. Along the way, she encounters mysterious guardians, forgotten figures, and terrifying creatures born from the remnants of lost landscapes. Each discovery brings her closer to understanding the connection between Beckett's disappearance and the ancient forces governing this forgotten world.But saving her brother may demand a sacrifice far greater than she ever imagined. When she confronts the Nameless Keeper, Amelia learns that love alone cannot undo the laws of a realm built from everything humanity has abandoned. To bring Beckett home, she must confront the true nature of identity, memory, and the price of refusing to forget someone you love.The Map of Lost Identities is an atmospheric fantasy adventure blending magical cartography, supernatural mystery, emotional family drama, and hauntingly beautiful world-building. At its heart is a powerful story about sibling devotion, the fragility of memory, and the determination to preserve the people who matter most, even when the entire world insists they never existed.
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