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Quiet That Holds: A Civic Fantasy of Oaths and Quiet Power
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ISBN13: 9798271999727
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a city learns to sing its doors open, thieves don't need keys-just the right note. Elara Wyn was trained to hear the seams in songs and the lies in paper. Kael was taught never to plant his feet where someone else sets the beat. Together, they're the field's answer to a Regent who wants harmony more than truth.
As oaths are standardized and breath itself gets cached in polite devices, Elara and Kael fight with the dull weapons that actually work-read-alouds, wrong thirds, and rooms full of people answering together. From tea-house audits to bell-tower showdowns to a quiet war upriver, they learn that the only thing stronger than a key is a chorus... and that quiet should hold without obedience.
Quiet That Holds launches a sharp, human civic-fantasy series about power that pretends to be paperwork-and the ordinary habits that defeat it. Chris Johnson writes smart, human-scale fantasy about ordinary habits that break extraordinary machines. Based in the Midwest, they prefer tea houses to throne rooms and love a good ledger. When not writing, they build quiet systems for real people. Quiet That Holds is Book One in the Rooms That Answer series.
Quiet That Holds launches a sharp, human civic-fantasy series about power that pretends to be paperwork-and the ordinary habits that defeat it. Chris Johnson writes smart, human-scale fantasy about ordinary habits that break extraordinary machines. Based in the Midwest, they prefer tea houses to throne rooms and love a good ledger. When not writing, they build quiet systems for real people. Quiet That Holds is Book One in the Rooms That Answer series.
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