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When We Almost Were

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📖 Book Description - When We Almost Were

By Kh.kojok

Everyone has a version of themselves they never became. A life that could have been-but wasn't.
What if you could read the letter your other self never sent?

In a quiet city tangled in forgotten timelines, people begin receiving mysterious letters-unsigned, unsettlingly personal, and filled with echoes of alternate lives. These letters aren't warnings. They're reminders. Invitations.
And they're all from the Archive.

As strangers of all ages-a burned-out teacher, a grieving father, a runaway teen, an ex-soldier-are pulled into the Archive's reach, they must confront their unlived choices, rewrite the stories they've buried, and uncover why some who read the letters... begin to vanish.

When We Almost Were is a genre-bending journey through memory, identity, and the spaces between versions of ourselves.
Tense, poetic, and soul-stirring, it's a novel about the price of closure-and what happens when the past refuses to stay lost.


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Almost Was Ours

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