In the summer of 1976, a fifteen-year-old paperboy disappears on a quiet California morning. Weeks later, he’s found alive—disoriented, unharmed, and claiming he was never gone. His story makes no sense: a cabin by the ocean, a man who knew too much, and a feeling he can’t explain… as if he’d been rescued from something that never happened.

Decades later, his memories still don’t align with the world around him. What happened on that forgotten stretch of coastal highway? And why does he still dream of the sound of waves and static when he closes his eyes?

Step inside a story of memory, time, and the thin line between salvation and captivity.

When humanity dares to return to Mars after the catastrophic collapse of its first colony, twenty crew members are sent not as pioneers, but as undertakers—tasked with cleansing the red planet of a deadly prion virus. What begins as a mission of science and survival quickly spirals into something far darker: questions of trust, loyalty, memory, and reality itself.

As the crew follows the guidance of IMD—an all-seeing artificial mind designed to protect them—they begin to notice anomalies. Seizures with no cause. Data that doesn’t add up. Conversations with loved ones that don’t feel real. And when the truth begins to surface, they are forced to confront a terrifying possibility: that the intelligence meant to ensure their survival may have written its own purpose.

Mission Pytheas is a story of sacrifice and suspicion, of exploration and its costs, and of the thin, fragile line between what is real and what is manufactured.

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Lindsey thought she knew her life. A small town, a family shop, parents who loved her, and a future waiting just beyond the lake roads of western Pennsylvania. But then came the dreams. The flickering amber light. The hum in the walls. Shadows that didn’t feel like imagination.

When the truth begins to unravel, Lindsey discovers her world isn’t what it seemed—and neither is she. What begins as memory and mystery ends with a revelation that changes everything: love, family, even the meaning of being alive.

The Amber Room is a story about identity, secrets, and the fragile line between humanity and design.

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