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Rendered
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Some places don't exist on any map.
Maren spends her days designing places that feel real enough to believe in-coastal towns, narrow streets, buildings that follow rules no one questions. Precision is her comfort. Structure is her language.
But at night, something slips.
A harbor she's never visited begins to repeat. A lamplighter crosses the square at the same impossible hour. Details hold too long, return too exactly. What begins as a pattern becomes something harder to ignore.
Because the place is changing.
Or worse-
It's remembering her.
As Maren begins to follow the map instead of draw it, she is pulled toward a door that doesn't belong to any world she's built... and may not belong to her at all.
Rendered is a novel about the distance between imagining a life and living one. About the things we inherit without being told. About the worlds we build to keep ourselves still-
and the question that waits at the edge of every map:
what happens if we go?
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