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The Splintered Man: The First Alignment
Paperback
Series: The Seam, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The First Alignment
Book One of The Seam
Pressure does not disappear. It condenses.
When unexplained confessions begin rippling through his workplace, Marcus Ellison discovers something impossible beneath his skin-faint metallic lines that surface whenever instability rises around him. At first, he believes it's stress. Then he realizes it's structure.
The phenomenon does not create chaos. It corrects it.
As internal fractures begin surfacing in those around him, a compliance investigator uncovers evidence that similar events have occurred across the country. Marcus is not the origin. He is a seam-one of the rare individuals capable of absorbing and redistributing pressure hidden beneath modern systems.
But he is not alone.
When Marcus encounters another man whose manifestation appears colder, sharper, and fundamentally opposed to his own, the truth becomes unavoidable:
The world is not breaking.
It is recalibrating.
And some people are becoming its architecture.
Dark, intelligent, and quietly unsettling, The Splintered Man is a psychological thriller about structural collapse, silent correction, and the cost of becoming a living fault line.
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