The Chronowarden

Book One of the Ethereal Pages Trilogy. The novel.

The bell rang in the wrong direction. Time had begun to fold.

Lyra Vale is a Chronowarden — a keeper of the Golden Thread, the Web of Life that holds the architecture of time intact. When she wakes at the wolf-hour to find a bell ringing backward, she discovers the Web has begun to fracture in specific places: Provence in 1789, Vienna in 1923, a Bengal village in 1770. The fractures are not natural. Something is unmaking the sequence.

Across fourteen chapters — from The Bell That Rings Backward and The Forge of Souls through The Inverted Library, The Mirror Worlds, and The Battle at the Axis Mundi — Lyra, her barred-owl familiar Soren, and the Council of Twelve must trace the fractures back to their source, confront the Hollow Travelers and the former warden who founded them, and decide what kind of repair is possible when the damage was the point all along.

What this book is, plainly: a literary mystical-fantasy novel. Continuous prose narrative. A protagonist, a familiar, an antagonist, a quest, a council, a battle, a homecoming. Fourteen chapters with epigraphs. Not a guidebook. Not a workbook. A story.

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Approximate reading time: Two to three patient evenings, or one slow weekend.

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