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The Source

Book 1 in The Remnant Chronicles

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by Carl Wiseman

Maren Voss built the system that makes people disappear. As Senior Assessor for the Bureau of Records, she designed the empire’s flood-season culling process: efficient, orderly, and mathematically defensible. The delta stays stable. The ledgers balance. The unwanted vanish under cover of rising water. Then Sera, a Remnant record-keeper, enters Maren’s office with a plan only Maren can execute. Use the empire’s own machinery to smuggle condemned communities upstream, beyond registration, beyond pursuit, toward the forbidden place they call the Source. Maren refuses, then quietly alters the first record. What follows is a dangerous journey through flood, marsh, highland road, and wilderness, pursued by the officials Maren once served. Alongside the people her system was built to erase, she encounters a faith she cannot categorise, a child she cannot reduce to data, and a pattern of providence she can explain but not dismiss. The Source is a no-magic Christian allegorical fantasy about guilt, grace, and the courage to act when the old certainties fail. The water finds its way. As it has always found.

Publication date: June 29, 2026