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A Pocket Universe Adventure: The Lexicon Looped
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ISBN13: 9798244412185
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 18 2026
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 18 2026
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
YOU DIDN'T BUY THIS BOOK. YOU PICKED UP A NODE.
In New Orleans, a normal lunch turns into an intake line-forms, name tags, and rules that start acting like they've always been true. When the room tries to file people into permanent categories, Mara does the only thing that works: she makes reality messy again. Today. Right now. This weather. This shift. No forever-words.
In New Orleans, a normal lunch turns into an intake line-forms, name tags, and rules that start acting like they've always been true. When the room tries to file people into permanent categories, Mara does the only thing that works: she makes reality messy again. Today. Right now. This weather. This shift. No forever-words.
But the storm doesn't stop at the door.
A service entrance peels open into the City of Echoing Pages-a metropolis built from book spines, ink-lamps, and sentences that rearrange themselves when you blink. The city's core story is missing. The loop is spreading. And someone known only as the Redactor is collecting endings like trophies-clean, tidy, dead-ending closures that feel like relief until they feel like a trap.
Now Joe and the crew are running with a noir detective at their side, a want-filled locket against Mara's chest, a dagger that cuts sentences without killing bodies, and a trapped title-MR-thudding under foil like a leftover that learned how to open doors.
Because in the Great Game, nothing stays in its original context. Fear becomes policy. A label becomes a life. A temporary moment gets treated like an eternal truth.
And the only way out is to choose what kind of ending you're willing to fight for.
What you'll find inside:
A service entrance peels open into the City of Echoing Pages-a metropolis built from book spines, ink-lamps, and sentences that rearrange themselves when you blink. The city's core story is missing. The loop is spreading. And someone known only as the Redactor is collecting endings like trophies-clean, tidy, dead-ending closures that feel like relief until they feel like a trap.
Now Joe and the crew are running with a noir detective at their side, a want-filled locket against Mara's chest, a dagger that cuts sentences without killing bodies, and a trapped title-MR-thudding under foil like a leftover that learned how to open doors.
Because in the Great Game, nothing stays in its original context. Fear becomes policy. A label becomes a life. A temporary moment gets treated like an eternal truth.
And the only way out is to choose what kind of ending you're willing to fight for.
What you'll find inside:
- Dark urban fantasy rooted in New Orleans, with horror tension and sharp humor
- Fast dialogue, high-stakes choices, and systems that sound reasonable while they bite
- A pocket-universe thriller about identity, drift, and refusing clean answers
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