A Pocket Universe Adventure: The Lexicon Loop (Gate of Aesir)

By Joseph Santiago

You didn't pick up a book.

You picked up a Node-a pocket doorway into a set of worlds where stories don't describe reality. They shape it.

In Sector Folio-7, a catastrophic cascade has begun. Worlds are bleeding into each other, rules are breaking, and a city built from living pages is starting to collapse from the inside. Streets repeat out of order. People forget who they are mid-sentence. And "plot holes"-literal voids-open in the ground and swallow entire blocks.

Mara Keene is a Scriptor tasked with keeping this place intact. She enters the City of Echoing Pages to recover the missing Core Narrative-the foundational thread that holds the city together-but she isn't alone for long.

A cynical detective who suspects everyone.

A knight displaced into the wrong world.

A citizen who has begun to realize they were written to serve someone else.

And somewhere in the city, the one responsible is building something worse than destruction: a perfect, permanent story that never changes and never ends.

To save the node, Mara will have to navigate shifting loyalties, competing truths, and the quiet violence of control disguised as order-while the Great Game watches from above, measuring every choice for what it reveals.

Turn the page when you're ready.

The consequences don't wait.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GH8D5BG3
• ISBN13: 9798244161441
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 732 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.6" x 6.0"