Borrowed Lives
A progression-fantasy saga of living books, earned powers, and one unbreakable principle: the people inside a story can never be property. Six books.
Book One
The Man Who Lived Between Chapters
A burned-out editor crosses into a living book, survives twelve years in a single night, and comes home changed, carrying a power that reads the faults in stories themselves.
Nolan Greve discovers the book worlds, lives twelve years inside a doomed fantasy kingdom during one night on Earth, meets Iria Moss, and stops Beckett Fane’s first attempt to invade reality.
Coming soon to Amazon Kindle & paperback.
Book Two
Every Book Leaves a Scar
Every life Nolan has lived leaves its mark, and someone is hunting the stable powers he brought back.
Nolan’s accumulated lives begin damaging his identity while hostile book-walkers hunt him for his stable abilities.
Coming soon to Amazon Kindle & paperback.
Book Three
The Library of Borrowed Lives
Behind the gateways stands a library that catalogs conscious worlds, and hides a secret about who built them.
Nolan and Iria discover the organization cataloging conscious book worlds and uncover the human origin of the gateways.
Coming soon to Amazon Kindle & paperback.
Book Four
The Reader Who Returned Stronger
A book-walker returns from decades stranded between worlds with enough power to rule both realities.
A stranded book-walker returns to Earth after experiencing decades elsewhere, carrying overwhelming power and plans to rule both realities.
Coming soon to Amazon Kindle & paperback.
Book Five
The Last Unwritten World
In a world that was never fully written, intention becomes reality, and reality starts rewriting history.
Nolan enters a world that has not been fully written. Thoughts and intentions can become reality, allowing the world to rewrite real history.
Coming soon to Amazon Kindle & paperback.
Book Six
The World That Was Reading Him
The series finale: Earth itself may be a story under observation, and Nolan must win freedom for both worlds without erasing either.
The series finale reveals that Earth may itself be a story being observed and altered from somewhere else. Nolan must establish freedom and reciprocal consent between realities without erasing either world.
Coming soon to Amazon Kindle & paperback.
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