Web of Echoes: Book 3: The Ascension Cycle Series

In the wake of Alek's sacrifice and the unlocking of the first Precinct of Ascension, stability proves elusive. The Ascension Gate hums with renewed purpose, but its resonance begins pulling echoes from fractured timelines and divergent clone memories-strands of unfinished thought woven into something sentient. What began as anomalies soon ripple into chaos: phantom selves, ghost-clones, and paradox imprints now haunt the plateau's sacred geometry. Every glimmer of memory that once belonged to Thaddeus now flickers with uncertainty.

Derry, her form still fragile from the rites of attunement, senses the unraveling first. In the elemental currents she hears distorted laughter-familiar voices saying things they never said. Dreams are corrupted. History rewrites itself in whispers.

As Thaddeus grapples with the instability infecting his clone pantheon, one defecting ally offers a clue: a hidden archive beneath the plateau, long suppressed by the original Thaddeus before the first replication cycle. If accessed, it could re-anchor their fragmented realities-or shatter them irreparably.

But the Web has teeth. To trace it is to invite confrontation with selves that should not be, memories that refused deletion, and reflections that fight back.

Caught between echoes and intent, Thaddeus and Derry must descend into a labyrinth older than memory itself. What they find will challenge not just who they are-but who they were never meant to become.