The Altered Realm
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Last published Tue, Oct 7, 2025
Arylis Marlowe has always lived a quiet life. She spends her evenings buried in books, walking home from the library long after the streets have emptied. Fantasy was something she read about, not something she ever expected to live.
But everything changes one night when she's attacked on her way home. Bruised and shaken, she reaches her apartment only to realize something isn't right. The walls are familiar, the streets look the same, yet the world feels... wrong.
There are strangers in places she knows by heart. Shadows seem to watch her. And the man standing in her home swears it doesn't belong to her at all.
Thrown into a world that mirrors her own yet twists at every corner, Arylis must confront a truth more dangerous than she could ever imagine. Because she isn't lost-she's somewhere else. And in this realm, nothing she thought she knew will protect her.
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