Breaking of the Loop

The Breaking of the Loop
Book Four of The Archive War

In the dying husks of forgotten stories, where memory stutters and endings devour themselves, the Archivist walks.

Philip was once a silent observer of broken narratives-a guardian of lost truths in a multiverse riddled with recursion. But now, something far worse than entropy stalks the Archives. The Fold is evolving. It no longer simply corrupts memory. It writes back. It mimics logic, weaponizes rhyme, and devours meaning to build perfect, beautiful cages of endless repetition.

Alongside Adrian Locke-a haunted author learning to weaponize grammar-Philip must confront a new wave of recursive horrors: cities that loop their perfect mornings forever, reflections of himself that claim to be the "correct" version, and Pattern Eaters that hunt by theme and devour unfinished tales.

But breaking a loop has a price. And every time Philip severs one, he forgets something vital-names, places, promises once carved into the bedrock of his soul.

To stop the Fold from perfecting the art of narrative control, Philip must defy not just the recursion, but the seductive logic of preservation itself. Because some stories aren't meant to be polished. They're meant to end.