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Where We Unspool
Elias Thorne, a master cartographer, has spent a lifetime taming the world's chaotic continents into lines and measurements. His study is a sanctuary of order, his past a meticulously charted map. But when his carefully constructed reality is fractured by a chilling revelation—that there is no physical proof his most cherished companion, the memory of his late wife Lena, ever existed—the last uncharted place becomes the treacherous, fading landscape of his own mind.
Haunted by a ghost only he can see and a silence that deafens him, Elias embarks on one final, desperate expedition. Armed with the familiar tools of his trade—vellum, ink, and compass—he turns inward, attempting to chart the coordinates of his past and find a tangible anchor for the woman who gave his life meaning. His quest is soon complicated by a cryptic package from a mysterious "A.F.", pulling him into the forgotten legacy of a legendary Antarctic explorer and a secret hidden for decades in a remote English manor.
Where We Unspool is a poignant and gripping psychological drama about the fragile nature of memory, the stories we tell ourselves to survive, and the courage it takes to chart our own decline. As Elias’s internal and external worlds begin to bleed into one another, he must confront the terrifying possibility that the greatest ghost is not the woman he is chasing, but the man he has become. It is a journey into the heart of a brilliant but broken mind, a cartographer racing against time to map the coordinates of his own disappearance before he, too, is erased from the page.
Haunted by a ghost only he can see and a silence that deafens him, Elias embarks on one final, desperate expedition. Armed with the familiar tools of his trade—vellum, ink, and compass—he turns inward, attempting to chart the coordinates of his past and find a tangible anchor for the woman who gave his life meaning. His quest is soon complicated by a cryptic package from a mysterious "A.F.", pulling him into the forgotten legacy of a legendary Antarctic explorer and a secret hidden for decades in a remote English manor.
Where We Unspool is a poignant and gripping psychological drama about the fragile nature of memory, the stories we tell ourselves to survive, and the courage it takes to chart our own decline. As Elias’s internal and external worlds begin to bleed into one another, he must confront the terrifying possibility that the greatest ghost is not the woman he is chasing, but the man he has become. It is a journey into the heart of a brilliant but broken mind, a cartographer racing against time to map the coordinates of his own disappearance before he, too, is erased from the page.
349 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 24, 2025
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