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That Which Holds Them Apart
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 660
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The road wasn't on the map. Then the map stopped mattering.
Noah and Iris Venn spend their holidays chasing forgotten infrastructure: abandoned bridges, obsolete surveys, and roads that officially no longer exist.
In the rainforest of Gabon, flooding forces them onto L-17, a logging road decommissioned nearly twenty years ago.
At first, the problems are easy to explain.
Road markers repeat. GPS positions drift. Photographs show distances that aren't there.
Then the road behind them disappears.
After a catastrophic accident leaves Iris dying, Noah carries her into a buried structure beneath the forest and begs something in the darkness to save his wife.
It does.
Back in Canada, Iris's recovery is called a medical miracle.
Until hallways begin changing length.
Reflections move a fraction too late. Dogs panic when they look at her. Strangers dream of the same impossible stars. And astronomers begin reporting points of light simply vanishing from the night sky.
Noah asked for one life to be saved.
He never asked what saving her might connect them to.
Some roads disappear because nobody uses them anymore. Some roads disappear because they were never supposed to be followed.
That Which Holds Them Apart is a slow-burn cosmic horror novel about impossible geometry, ancient containment, guilt, love, and what one human life is worth when the universe starts asking the question.
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