Grimthorne, (Paperback)

<p></p><p>When <b>Vera</b> awakens on the marble floor of <b>a university's</b> library, she has no idea how she got there. Her memories are gone-cleanly erased-yet a strange silver ring on her finger feels familiar. Etched inside the band is the Latin phrase <b>"ad veritatem."</b> <i>Toward the truth.</i></p><p>But something is desperately wrong.<br><b>Every clock on campus is frozen at 2:17 a.m.</b><br>Time hasn't stopped... it's <i>looping</i>, flickering, stuttering like corrupted code. The hallways glitch between states, staircases shift direction mid-step, and the portraits on the walls seem to watch her, frame by frame.</p><p>Vera soon discovers she isn't alone. Four other students-each dazed, memoryless, and wearing identical rings-are scattered across the university grounds: <br>None of them remember why they're there, but their rings link them like pieces of a broken equation.</p><p>As the five try to understand the glitching reality around them, fragments of memory bleed through-shards of a secret society at the university, an experiment that pushed beyond the boundaries of consciousness, and something they tried to uncover... or to hide.</p><p>The phrase <b>ad veritatem</b> begins to take on a darker weight.<br><i>The truth</i> is what they were searching for.<br><i>The truth</i> is what broke the world at 2:17.<br>And <i>the truth</i> is something one of them is still hiding.</p><p>To restart time and escape the collapsing reality, they must recover what they lost.<br>But the more they remember, <br>the more the glitches hunt them-<br>as if the world itself is trying to prevent the truth from resurfacing.</p><p>And Vera suspects that when the clock finally ticks again, <br>one of them will not survive it.</p>

• Grimthorne, (Paperback)
• Author: Mersal Publishing
• ISBN: 9786338410056
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-01-14
• Page Count: 362