The shadows Between Us: book 2

The Shadow Between Us

Some roots were never meant to grow.

They rebuilt the world with memory. 

But some memories were never meant to be remembered.

In the wake of the Bloom’s collapse and the Ashfall’s rise, the world stands on the edge of forgetting. 

The Weave—a living network of dream, data, and remembrance—has begun to fracture. And within its tangle, something ancient stirs: a shadow not born of malice, but of neglect.

Mara, an ex-engineer turned reluctant archivist, is haunted by what she chose to forget. 

Ilya, the dream-mapper, sees patterns no longer bound by logic. 

Ash, forged in fire and silence, seeks a voice not given, but claimed. 

And Entropy, the cat who might be more than a cat, watches it all with unsettling knowing.

When a memory-node deep beneath the Garden goes dark, the trio is called to descend—into a place where truth was buried, names were erased, and the first fractures of the Spiral began.

But some truths don’t want to be found. 

And some shadows… are shared.

 In this second volume of The Spiral Cycle, 

_The Shadow Between Us_ dives deeper into the tangle of identity, legacy, and the cost of collective forgetting. 

It’s a story of reckoning—not just with the past, but with the parts of ourselves we never meant to leave behind

Perfect for readers of speculative fiction who love:

- Quiet revolutions and emotional depth 

- Found families and fractured systems 

- Dream-logic and lyrical prose 

- Cats who might be metaphors (or gods)   What hides between memory and myth?  Only the shadow can tell.