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Veil of Aeons

Veil of Aeons

Garcia, Andy

Paperback

FantasyGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798190008265
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A man wakes face down on a road with the rain already going. No name. No yesterday. Nothing behind him at all.

He takes his name from the bird watching him off the fence post: Rook. What he has in place of a past is a set of things he can do. He can count. He has every word in the language and not one of them is his. He knows a threshold when he stands on one, and he cannot say why he stops at it. Then the spring comes round again, the same spring, the same rain in the same hedge, the same woman dying in the same house, and one man walking through all of it who remembers every turn.

Three hundred miles east, at the top of two hundred steps cut into rock, a god sits on a stone seat and watches. He sees the inside of a locked room in a country he could not name. He cannot put a hand on any of it. The men who keep the stair call this the gift, and they are careful with the word. He no longer remembers being anything else. He is counting the heartbeats of the woman he loves. He has worked out that grief is not weather: it does not arrive, it is handed to you at a particular hour in a particular room, and every man he has watched has taken it. He is not going to put his hand out.

Two voices, an age apart. Two stories that should not be able to touch, walking toward each other one short chapter at a time. Veil of Aeons is a novel about the bill that eternity sends, about the difference between keeping someone and loving them, and about the small ordinary gesture that undoes a lifetime of refusing to say goodbye.

For readers of:

  • Piranesi: a strange world handed to you through a voice you trust long before you understand it
  • Dark Matter: a hard clock, a locked situation, a man who will not stop trying
  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August: repetition as a sentence and as a weapon
  • Kazuo Ishiguro: restraint, dread, and grief carried quietly all the way to the last page
Forty short chapters. Four parts. One year that refuses to end.

Veil of Aeons shares its world with the album of the same name, the book's soundtrack. Listening links are in the back matter.

Read it once for the story. Read it again for everything you walked past.

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