A Pocket Universe Adventure: The Lexicon Looped (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244412185)

YOU DIDN'T BUY THIS BOOK. YOU PICKED UP A NODE.
In New Orleans, a "normal" lunch turns into an intake line-forms, name tags, and rules that start acting like they've always been true. When the room tries to file people into permanent categories, Mara does the only thing that works: she makes reality messy again. Today. Right now. This weather. This shift. No forever-words.
But the storm doesn't stop at the door.
A service entrance peels open into the City of Echoing Pages-a metropolis built from book spines, ink-lamps, and sentences that rearrange themselves when you blink. The city's core story is missing. The loop is spreading. And someone known only as the Redactor is collecting endings like trophies-clean, tidy, dead-ending closures that feel like relief until they feel like a trap.
Now Joe and the crew are running with a noir detective at their side, a want-filled locket against Mara's chest, a dagger that cuts sentences without killing bodies, and a trapped title-MR-thudding under foil like a leftover that learned how to open doors.
Because in the Great Game, nothing stays in its original context. Fear becomes policy. A label becomes a life. A temporary moment gets treated like an eternal truth.
And the only way out is to choose what kind of ending you're willing to fight for.
What you'll find inside:

• Dark urban fantasy rooted in New Orleans, with horror tension and sharp humor
• Fast dialogue, high-stakes choices, and systems that "sound reasonable" while they bite
• A pocket-universe thriller about identity, drift, and refusing clean answers

Turn the page when you're ready. The Node is already active to close the loop.


Author: Joseph Santiago
ISBN-13: 9798244412185
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2026
Pages: 482
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d