The Reality Refugees: A Symphony of Shattered Realities

Cadence: a city of fractured realities, where the sky shifts between azure serenity and a chaotic vortex of hues. For the privileged Alphas, life is a seamless tapestry of opulent ease, their every whim catered to by a bespoke reality. But in the decaying sectors like Gamma-7, reality is a carefully curated illusion, a patchwork of limitations designed to maintain control.

Silas Vane, a reality maintenance worker in Gamma-7, patches the frayed edges of this manufactured contentment, suppressing glimpses of forbidden paradises. Haunted by visions of a singular, incandescent light, he suspects a different kind of collapse – not of society, but of illusion itself. Meanwhile, in the rarefied air of Alpha privilege, Kara Wheeler's perfectly ordered world begins to unravel. Luxury gives way to the mundane, familiar landscapes warp, revealing glimpses of a starkly different existence. Her curated reality is fracturing.

A flicker in Silas's system – a bleed-through from the Alpha reality – exposes the lies underpinning their segmented existence. Driven by his visions and the system's escalating instability, Silas uncovers whispers of "The Weavers," a clandestine group manipulating the very threads of reality. Stripped of her manufactured identity, Kara embarks on a desperate search for authenticity, for a self beyond the gilded cage. Her quest leads her to the fringes of Alpha society, to whispers of forbidden knowledge and the shadowy figures pulling the strings.

As realities converge, Silas and Kara, separated by a chasm of manufactured experience, find their paths intertwined. Silas, seeking answers within the whispers of The Weavers, uncovers a conspiracy reaching the highest echelons of power: a plot to reshape reality not for control, but for the obliteration of individual consciousness. Kara discovers a hidden network of dissidents fighting to reclaim their agency.

Amidst the escalating chaos, Silas and Kara become unlikely leaders of the "Reality Refugees," those displaced by the collapsing realities. Their alliance, fraught with tension, mirrors the larger societal struggle: clinging to the familiar versus embracing the terrifying allure of the unknown. The Weavers, rogue reality engineers, are weaving a new, homogenized collective consciousness, a terrifying utopia of manufactured unity.

Silas and Kara must choose: preserve the remnants of their fractured realities or embrace the terrifying potential of a singular truth, even if it means confronting the potential annihilation of their individual selves. Their journey becomes a desperate race, a fight not just for survival, but for the very soul of existence. In a treacherous landscape where every truth is suspect and memory malleable, they must confront the architects of their reality, who hold the power to either save or annihilate them all.

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Release date

Ebook: 11 November 2024