The Cycle Burns Backward

By Nikola Muckajev

Lukas has spent years trying to outrun the Thornwake.

But when the sky splits open and the city begins to dream, he is forced back into a truth that was never buried-only forgotten.

Sleep becomes a battlefield. Memories bleed between strangers. Ancient rites return in broken forms. And at the center of it all is a name buried beneath roots, a girl erased from ritual, and a cycle that has begun to burn backward.

As the Bloomkeepers move to contain what is rising, Lukas is drawn into a world of forbidden memory, living thorns, blood-soaked fields, and unfinished grief. To stop the unraveling, he must uncover what the Thornwake truly is-and what was sacrificed to silence it.

Dark, lyrical, and dream-soaked, The Cycle Burns Backward is a gothic fantasy of memory, grief, ritual, and the buried truths that refuse to stay dead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXNRVHKL
• ISBN13: 9798257778247
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"