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The Inkward Cycle: The Phantom Meridian
Paperback
Series: The Inkward Cycle, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE PHANTOM MERIDIAN
Book Two of The Inkward Cycle
Six months ago, Dario Renzetti walked out of Venice-Under-Salt's flooded cathedral with someone else's grief burned into his own mind and a woman beside him whose hands wouldn't stop shaking. He hasn't slept through a night since.
The visions keep coming - fragments of memory that aren't his, bleeding through at the worst possible moments. Serafina Alvano's dermal-reading gift is eating her alive, one contraband job at a time. And somewhere past the mapped edge of the flats, in a wasteland that remembers every atrocity ever committed against it, the answer is waiting. If it doesn't kill them first.
The Phantom Meridian doesn't just hold ground - it holds grief, replaying fifty-year-old massacres in its canyon walls and testing every traveler who crosses its ash-scarred boundary. Guided by an exiled cartographer with his own reasons for never going home, and sheltered by a settlement of the memory-purged and forgotten, Dario and Serafina push toward the source of it all: an ancient, patient intelligence that has been waiting in the dark since before the city's founders decided some truths were safer buried than remembered.
What they find will force a choice neither of them is prepared to make - between a peace that costs everything they've survived to keep, and a truth that could finally break fifty years of engineered forgetting wide open.
Dario refused the entity once, at the cost of nearly everything. This time, refusing might not be an option.
The Phantom Meridian continues the adult steampunk-noir saga begun in The Red Topography - a story of stolen memory, inherited guilt, and the terrible cost of a peace built on what a city has agreed never to remember.
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