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Last published Thu, Dec 18, 2025
Jules has always lived half in a dream, sketching strange patterns no one else seems to notice. But when his friend vanishes and the city itself begins to twist around him-billboards flickering with his name, graffiti that watches him back-he can no longer laugh it off as exhaustion.
Then he meets Silas. Enigmatic, magnetic, and impossibly certain of Jules's worth, Silas navigates him into the hidden world layered beneath the streets: the Reflective City.
It is alive, filled with beauty and danger-where glowing murals shift with passing trains, and statues stalk those marked with THE SIGHT.
With only a sharp-tongued fox called Ash at his side and Silas guiding him deeper, Jules is forced to confront what he is, what the city wants from him, and how far he'll go to protect the people he loves.
But every choice in the Reflective City carries a price, and once Jules steps across its threshold, there's no way back.
Themes included in the book but not limited to:
• Urban fantasy with surreal and unsettling imagery
• Themes of obsession and trust issues
• Dreamlike horror elements (nightmares, shifting realities, statues that hunt)
• Mentions of missing persons/disappearances
• Mild body horror (stone transformations, sigils burning into skin)
• Emotional manipulation / gaslighting
• Injury and blood (not extreme gore)
• Emotional intensity: grief, loneliness, found-family bonds
• Queer romance
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