The clock has been lying for sixty-three years.

Kaelen Ashford is the only person who has noticed.

At the University of Velanis, history is truth, records are sacred, and reality is not supposed to change.

But Kaelen has spent three months watching the impossible.

A clock tower moves backward.

Official records contradict the past.

Ink rearranges itself into messages no one else can see.

And beneath the world he knows, something is beginning to wake.

When a hidden note leads Kaelen into forbidden archives and forgotten tunnels beneath the University, he discovers that the fracture in reality is far older than anyone remembers.

A secret order has spent centuries protecting a truth that could destroy everything: the world is trapped in a failing cycle, and at its center lies the Hollow, a wound where something from beyond reality is slowly breaking through.

Twelve Scholars came before Kaelen.

Twelve failed.

Now he is the thirteenth.

But Kaelen may not have been chosen to repeat their failures.

He may be the first person created for an entirely different purpose.

As the boundaries between memory, history, and reality begin to collapse, Kaelen must uncover the truths hidden beneath centuries of silence before the cycle turns again.

Because the greatest danger may not be the thing trying to destroy reality.

It may be the belief that anyone can save it alone.

The Cracked Reality is the first volume of Chronicles of the Fractured Prism: Aethoria's Veins, an epic fantasy mystery of forbidden knowledge, ancient cycles, fractured reality, hidden orders, philosophical magic, and a world built upon a truth no one was meant to remember.

The clock has lied for sixty-three years.

Now someone has finally started asking why.