The Plot Thickens: A Whimsical Fantasy of Books, Chaos, and Clever Twists

The Library Saga: A Satirical, Genre-Bending Saga of Books That Fight Back #2

by Cliff Ball

Book 2 of The Library Saga in a multi-book (10+) series

The margins are stirring, the genres are glitching, and the footnotes are starting to fight back.

Bonnie thought she’d redirected a library page. Instead, she created a genre virus with editorial flair and a vendetta against exposition. Now the Redactor is rewriting reality — one trope at a time. Romance becomes courtroom drama. Cookbooks narrate in noir. And the Mystery Section won’t stop rhyming.

As the Library fractures under narrative sabotage, Dewey the cat patrols the chaos, Nora Clue adjusts to her legally distinct identity, and Alexandria faces a mystery that points to her as the culprit. Meanwhile, overdue slips fall like snow, each stamped with a single Remember.

To stop the rewrite, the Canon must venture into the Forgotten Wing, confront their own narrative sins, and read between the lines — before the Redactor edits them out entirely.

105 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 12, 2025

About the author

I'm a Christian first and foremost. I'm from Arizona and currently live in Phoenix. I have a BA and Technical Writing Certificate from University of North Texas. I won 3rd in a short story contest for a magazine through my high school Creative Writing class, which was the first story I ever had published in the early 90s. I've been independently published since 2008.

I'm a fan of a bunch of different genres, which is why a lot of my novels are different genres. From historical fiction to time travel to alternate history to lite sci-fi to Christian end times/political thrillers, and sometimes just mixed together.

Standalone novels/short stories:
Out of Time - time travel novel
Don't Mess With Earth - alt history
Dust Storm - western short story
Voyager and the Aliens - scifi short story

An American Family's Journey series - Christian historical
The Long Journey
A House Divided
Book 3 - TBA

Second Chances Series - Christian fiction
Going Back to Yesteryear
Into the Unknown Future
The Future Unfolds - TBA

Tales of the Southwest - Historical fiction / folklore
The Legend in the Stone
The Phantom of the Desert - TBA

New Frontier Series - alt history
New Frontier
Final Frontier

The End Times Saga - Christian Fiction
Times of Turmoil
Times of Trouble
Times of Trial
Times of Rebellion
Times of Destruction
Times of Judgment
Times of Tribulation
Times of Harvest

The Perilous Times Series - Christian Fiction
The Falling Away
The Great Deception
The Great Tribulation

The Library Saga Series - fantasy/ parody / satire / scifi
Guardians of Genre
The Plot Thickens
The Algorithmic Draft
The Unwritten Fallout
Cat-alyst Chronicles
Archivist's Paradox
The Cosmic Archive
The Annotated Identity
Books 9 & 10 - TBA

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