A Parallel Life: Awoken By a Lamp

By: Nick, R.

What if the life you woke into was never meant to be yours?

After a violent accident, Nicholas wakes into a world that feels complete-and impossibly wrong. He has a wife who knows him too well, children who love him without question, and a home filled with the quiet weight of shared history. Yet fragments of another life cling to him: a rain-soaked road, blinding headlights, and a memory that refuses to stay buried.

As days pass, Nicholas begins to sense fractures beneath the surface of this perfect existence. Small inconsistencies grow louder. Familiar objects behave strangely. A red lamp, unmoving yet watchful, becomes a silent reminder that reality may not be as stable as it appears.

Torn between the comfort of a life that feels earned and the pull of a truth that threatens to erase everything he's come to cherish, Nicholas must decide what it means to be awake-and what it costs to remember.

A Parallel Life: Awoken By a Lamp is a psychological literary novel about memory, identity, and the fragile boundary between dreaming and waking. Quietly unsettling and emotionally resonant, it explores how far the mind will go to protect itself-and what happens when it can no longer tell which world is real.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMLRPV5W
• ISBN13: 9798233641695
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: R. Nick
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"