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The Weight of Staying
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781918607123
Publisher: Britannia Publishing House
Published: May 25 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When time itself begins to resist ending, a single city becomes trapped inside a year that refuses to let go.
Elias Vorn, a temporal systems engineer, discovers that the current year has developed an impossible weight-accumulating events, memories, and unfinished outcomes faster than they can be corrected. As fractures spread through the city and moments begin to repeat, a containment boundary seals millions of people inside a failing timeline.
Field operative Mara Kade is sent beyond the boundary, where she discovers that time is no longer behaving as a neutral force. Residual versions of erased lives linger, years compete for survival, and a vanished scientist may have become part of the very structure holding reality together.
As authorities prepare to forcibly terminate the year, Elias and Mara face an impossible choice: preserve stability at the cost of millions, or allow time to complete itself-no matter the consequences.
The Weight of Staying is a cerebral science-fiction novel about agency, consequence, and what happens when systems built to control reality are forced to confront memory, loss, and restraint.
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