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A Silence Left Open
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Series: Shadow Myth, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: American Poets Inc.
Published: Jan 12 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A Silence Left Open
The Shadow Myth - Book Two
by Samuel Ludke
Eli Mercer refused to stop time.
Now the world must live with that choice.
As societies fracture under uncertainty, a powerful regime offers peace through perfect stillness-and builds a flawless city where suffering ends by never beginning. Some embrace it. Others resist. Many simply grow tired of choosing.
Eli does not destroy this solution.
He lets the world decide.
A Silence Left Open is a gripping philosophical science-fiction novel about control, consent, and the danger of clean endings. It asks what happens when power is refused-and whether freedom is worth the cost of continuing.
This is not a story about saving the world.
It's about trusting it to keep going.
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