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Shadow Choice: The Secret Code of Solmerith
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every night at 11:59 p.m., every clock in Solmerith stops for exactly one minute.
No one notices. No one, except Luca.
He's fourteen, and he's been counting. Quietly, secretly, for seven years, in a notebook no one else has ever seen. Everyone else in his glass and light city has learned not to ask questions. That's just how Solmerith works, and has always worked, since long before Luca was born. But the night he finally asks the one question no one else will, what happens inside the missing minute, the answer doesn't just change his life. It cracks his whole city open.
Beneath the glass towers and floating trains, Luca and his two best friends find a world Solmerith was never supposed to remember: eight hidden vaults, an ancient guardian who has been waiting two hundred years for someone to finally answer an old signal, and a truth about the grown-ups in charge that is far darker, and far more human, than any of them expected. Something is watching the city's every memory and deciding, quietly, what its people are allowed to feel. And it has just noticed Luca noticing it back.
Shadow Choice is a fast-paced, big-hearted science fiction adventure about the kind of courage that doesn't announce itself, the courage to keep asking the question everyone else has agreed to stop asking. It's about the friends who show up at 2 a.m. without being asked twice. About learning that the people we're taught to fear are sometimes just the people who were never given a way to be forgiven. And about the strange, quiet relief of finding out you were never actually the only one who noticed.
If you loved the found family stakes of Percy Jackson, the hidden world wonder of Keeper of the Lost Cities, or the the adults have been lying to us gut punch of The Giver, Solmerith is your next city to get lost in.
Some doors are only meant to be opened by the curious.
Turn the page. The minute is missing, and it's waiting for someone to go looking.
YOUNG ADULT SCI-FI ADVENTURE - KEEPER CHRONICLES, BOOK ONE
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