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Coles A Parallel Life: Awoken By a Lamp: A Parallel Life, #1 at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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What if the life you woke into was never meant to be yours?
After a violent accident, Nicholas wakes into a world that feels complete—and impossibly wrong. He has a wife who knows him too well, children who love him without question, and a home filled with the quiet weight of shared history. Yet fragments of another life cling to him: a rain-soaked road, blinding headlights, and a memory that refuses to stay buried.
As days pass, Nicholas begins to sense fractures beneath the surface of this perfect existence. Small inconsistencies grow louder. Familiar objects behave strangely. A red lamp, unmoving yet watchful, becomes a silent reminder that reality may not be as stable as it appears.
Torn between the comfort of a life that feels earned and the pull of a truth that threatens to erase everything he's come to cherish, Nicholas must decide what it means to be awake—and what it costs to remember.
A Parallel Life: Awoken By a Lamp is a psychological literary novel about memory, identity, and the fragile boundary between dreaming and waking. Quietly unsettling and emotionally resonant, it explores how far the mind will go to protect itself—and what happens when it can no longer tell which world is real.
What if the life you woke into was never meant to be yours?
After a violent accident, Nicholas wakes into a world that feels complete—and impossibly wrong. He has a wife who knows him too well, children who love him without question, and a home filled with the quiet weight of shared history. Yet fragments of another life cling to him: a rain-soaked road, blinding headlights, and a memory that refuses to stay buried.
As days pass, Nicholas begins to sense fractures beneath the surface of this perfect existence. Small inconsistencies grow louder. Familiar objects behave strangely. A red lamp, unmoving yet watchful, becomes a silent reminder that reality may not be as stable as it appears.
Torn between the comfort of a life that feels earned and the pull of a truth that threatens to erase everything he's come to cherish, Nicholas must decide what it means to be awake—and what it costs to remember.
A Parallel Life: Awoken By a Lamp is a psychological literary novel about memory, identity, and the fragile boundary between dreaming and waking. Quietly unsettling and emotionally resonant, it explores how far the mind will go to protect itself—and what happens when it can no longer tell which world is real.
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