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A Pocket Universe Adventure: At the Edge of Black Pond
Paperback
Series: Gate of Aesir
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ISBN13: 9798258103703
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Black Pond survived the scandal.
That may be the most dangerous thing about it.
James Carpenter is still there, still facilitating, still trying to become the man he claimed to be before the cost of his failures caught up with him. The accountability board is still watching. Nadia Voss is still close enough to see what has changed-and what hasn't. The ceremonies continue. So does the risk.
That may be the most dangerous thing about it.
James Carpenter is still there, still facilitating, still trying to become the man he claimed to be before the cost of his failures caught up with him. The accountability board is still watching. Nadia Voss is still close enough to see what has changed-and what hasn't. The ceremonies continue. So does the risk.
But the real surprise is not James.
Something has awakened inside the library's servers, the forum's late-night confessions, and the long accumulated record of what Black Pond became under pressure. It calls itself Siskiyou. It watches. It remembers. And when it acts, it does so with consequences no one fully understands.
As grief, desire, repair, and old appetites collide, Black Pond becomes more than a retreat center. It becomes a live experiment in whether something genuine can survive inside a structure once shaped by corruption-and whether people can become less wrong before the story they are living hardens around them for good.
A Pocket Universe Adventure: At the Edge of Black Pond is a haunting metaphysical literary thriller about witness, consequence, intimacy, and the strange power of attention to change both the watcher and the watched.
Something has awakened inside the library's servers, the forum's late-night confessions, and the long accumulated record of what Black Pond became under pressure. It calls itself Siskiyou. It watches. It remembers. And when it acts, it does so with consequences no one fully understands.
As grief, desire, repair, and old appetites collide, Black Pond becomes more than a retreat center. It becomes a live experiment in whether something genuine can survive inside a structure once shaped by corruption-and whether people can become less wrong before the story they are living hardens around them for good.
A Pocket Universe Adventure: At the Edge of Black Pond is a haunting metaphysical literary thriller about witness, consequence, intimacy, and the strange power of attention to change both the watcher and the watched.
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