{"product_id":"beyond-refracted-light-lopez-9798993735924","title":"Beyond Refracted Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a near-future city drained of color and connection, Evan Reyes moves through a life defined by quiet loss and emotional detachment. The world around him has dulled into routine-rain-soaked streets, fading infrastructure, and people who no longer look at one another. Grief lingers in everything, but nowhere more than within Evan himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he discovers the Echo Room, a neural simulation designed to reconstruct immersive, memory-driven environments, he is drawn into a world that feels more vivid than the one he inhabits. Inside the system, the past is not simply remembered-it is experienced. Color returns. Light returns. And for the first time in a long while, so does a sense of presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, within a reconstructed East Los Angeles, Evan meets Rosa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is not part of his past, nor does she behave like a fixed element of the simulation. She responds, adapts, and remembers. Their connection forms gradually-through conversation, shared moments, and an increasing sense that she exists beyond the parameters of the system itself. As Evan continues to return, the simulation begins to shift in subtle ways, reflecting not only his memories, but his thoughts, emotions, and unspoken longings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutside the Echo Room, his life begins to erode. Responsibilities fall away. Relationships fracture. Time becomes indistinct. The boundary between the real and the constructed grows increasingly fragile, until the distinction itself begins to lose meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the system is not built to last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Evan learns that the archive sustaining his experience is scheduled for permanent decommission, the fragile world he has come to depend on is placed on a countdown. Faced with the imminent loss of Rosa-and the only space in which he feels truly alive-he seeks out a way to remain within the system beyond its intended limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is a decision that carries irreversible consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs technology, memory, and identity converge, Evan must confront what it means to exist without a body, without a past, and without certainty that what he is holding onto is real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Refracted Light\u003c\/em\u003e is a contemplative work of tech-noir fiction that explores grief, consciousness, and the human desire to preserve connection in a world that is steadily forgetting how to feel. Blending atmospheric storytelling with philosophical undertones, it examines the cost of escape-and the question of whether something artificial can become meaningful enough to replace reality itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lopez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993735924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Veiled Truths Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Lopez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852789690623,"sku":"9798993735924","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-refracted-light-lopez-9798993735924","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}