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The Breaking of the Loop
Paperback
Series: The Archive War, Book 4
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 8 2025
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A deleted town. A living receipt trail. A war against endings that keep repeating.
Philip is a Witness, an immortal archivist trained to observe collapsing realities without interference. But Norrhollow is not collapsing. It is looping, printing the same grief and the same loss over and over until the world forgets what before even means.
When a fugitive called the Loopwalker resurfaces, Philip and the damaged author Adrian Locke follow the trail into a town that should not exist, where names are treated like property, memory is treated like paperwork, and a cold bureaucratic force called the Registrar can steal a person by filing them correctly.
To break the loop, Philip has to do the one thing a Witness is never supposed to do, choose a side and leave a mark. Because in Norrhollow, neutrality is just another form of consent, and the clean version of yourself is often the first enemy that arrives.
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Book Four in the Archive War cycle, The Breaking of the Loop blends cosmic horror, metafictional dread, and procedural nightmare into a story about identity, consent, and the cost of refusing clean endings.
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