Enter the Living Veil
(2026)(The fourth book in the Atlantis University series)
A novel by Michael Todd
Somewhere in the walls of Atlantis University, it is raining on a street that does not exist.
Wet asphalt. A cracked curb. A kid in a yellow raincoat stomping a puddle in rain that fell on the world Jackson Bach left behind. No Memory Echo behaves like that. The diagnostic glass has started calling him something the school has no category for.
The artifact hidden in his jacket answers before he asks it anything. Two words hold steady in the wreckage of a broken language: BOUNDARY REQUIRED. Behind a wall the university insists is architecturally complete, an ancient system fails by inches, bleeding one world into another, hunting for a single hand willing to take its chair.
It wants an operator. Someone to sit down, hold the authority, and make everything obey.
Jackson has been someone else's file, someone else's asset, someone else's decision. He knows what a leash feels like when it is offered politely.
Does he refuse the chair and let the locks fail? Or take the power and become the thing
Does he refuse the chair and let the locks fail? Or take the power and become the thing his squad cannot survive? Pick up Enter the Living Veil and find out what it asks for—and what it costs to refuse.
Genre: Fantasy
Wet asphalt. A cracked curb. A kid in a yellow raincoat stomping a puddle in rain that fell on the world Jackson Bach left behind. No Memory Echo behaves like that. The diagnostic glass has started calling him something the school has no category for.
The artifact hidden in his jacket answers before he asks it anything. Two words hold steady in the wreckage of a broken language: BOUNDARY REQUIRED. Behind a wall the university insists is architecturally complete, an ancient system fails by inches, bleeding one world into another, hunting for a single hand willing to take its chair.
It wants an operator. Someone to sit down, hold the authority, and make everything obey.
Jackson has been someone else's file, someone else's asset, someone else's decision. He knows what a leash feels like when it is offered politely.
Does he refuse the chair and let the locks fail? Or take the power and become the thing
Does he refuse the chair and let the locks fail? Or take the power and become the thing his squad cannot survive? Pick up Enter the Living Veil and find out what it asks for—and what it costs to refuse.
Genre: Fantasy