The Inheritance of False Names

By Ryan Bardyla

A NAME CAN BE REFUSED. ITS OBLIGATIONS CANNOT.

Three months after the SplitRecord Protocol separates identity from family, fact, and disclosure, a dormant estate opens in thenames of twenty-one unresolved people. Its records reach into houses, trusts, legal files, and livesnever meant to be inherited.

Julian Fayette is listed not as investigator but as Subject FortyOne-a beneficiary of the system he helped expose. Mara Vale finds ownership chains designed tosurvive their owners. Nora discovers that refusal itself has been turned into consent.

As acourt races to appoint a receiver, Elias Voss-the last keeper of an office built from dead names-mustdecide what truth he can surrender without choosing another person's life for them.

TheInheritance of False Names is Book Five of The Cryptocracy Cycle, a paranoid archivalthriller about identity, property, and systems that keep operating after everyone claims they are gone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9J5K9DK
• ISBN13: 9798188000394
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"