James Napper / novel
The Second Ledger
There is the life people see, and the life that counts.
The Second Ledger is a speculative thriller about a hidden record of who we really are, and what it costs to uncover it.
When that second record begins to surface, it does more than expose secrets. It destabilizes the systems people depend on to know who they are.
What begins in wet timber before dawn widens into a much larger problem: a rival account of a life, one that does not care what anyone meant to project.
Opening pressure
Someone warns Elias away from Plot 18.
A black message arrives before dawn: do not go to Plot 18 today. There will be gunfire at 09:14.
He changes route anyway. The shot comes exactly on time.
From Chapter One
“At 09:14 exactly. His first thought was not fear. It was recognition.”Continue into the chapter