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The Cycle Burns Backward
Paperback
Series: Thornwake, Book 2
Publisher: Nikola Muckajev
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Lukas has spent years trying to outrun the Thornwake.
But when the sky splits open and the city begins to dream, he is forced back into a truth that was never buried-only forgotten.
Sleep becomes a battlefield. Memories bleed between strangers. Ancient rites return in broken forms. And at the center of it all is a name buried beneath roots, a girl erased from ritual, and a cycle that has begun to burn backward.
As the Bloomkeepers move to contain what is rising, Lukas is drawn into a world of forbidden memory, living thorns, blood-soaked fields, and unfinished grief. To stop the unraveling, he must uncover what the Thornwake truly is-and what was sacrificed to silence it.
Dark, lyrical, and dream-soaked, The Cycle Burns Backward is a gothic fantasy of memory, grief, ritual, and the buried truths that refuse to stay dead.
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