Valid Routes: All information required is contained in the diagram

When a diagram appears with a simple instruction-all information required is contained within it-it attracts little attention.Until something begins to change.Julian is a transit data analyst, trained to reconcile discrepancies in complex systems. Small errors, missing links, misaligned records-nothing unusual. But when a colleague's status quietly shifts without explanation, he begins to notice a pattern.Nothing is deleted. Nothing is lost. Some things simply stop being seen.As Julian investigates, the diagram begins to mirror the structure of the systems around him-transport networks, institutional records, even people themselves. Movements that register. Movements that don't. Paths that exist, but cannot be taken twice.What begins as a puzzle becomes something else: a set of rules.And once those rules are understood, they cannot be ignored.Valid Routes is a speculative novel about classification, persistence, and the hidden structures that determine what remains visible-and what quietly disappears.For readers of intelligent, slow-burn fiction that lingers long after the final page.

Pagina's: 248, Paperback, Independently published