{"product_id":"the-awakening-a-mythical-novella-paperback","title":"The Awakening: A Mythical Novella - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaire Salerno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE AWAKENING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Aurelian Empire, towers of glass and gold rise in every city. Screens glow in every home. The Speakers send their voices out day and night, and the message never changes: \u003cem\u003eYou are under attack. The enemy is everywhere. Only we can protect you.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething ancient and hungry has awakened. An egregore, a thought-form fed by fear, outrage, and the endless scroll of collective attention. It wears the face of a hollow man called the Host. It binds the Faithful with belonging and permission. It feeds on those who fight it as readily as those who worship it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in homes and forest clearings, in the margins where the algorithms cannot reach, something else is stirring. Women are remembering names that were buried for millennia. They are calling powers older than the empire, older than its lies, nine faces of the divine feminine, each carrying a different medicine: truth, sovereignty, consequence, transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE AWAKENING is a mythic allegory for our fractured age. It asks what happens when resistance itself becomes the monster's food. It explores the poisoned bargains of gender under empire, the corruption of faith into weapon, and the radical act of turning away from what consumes us to build something worth living for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart warning, part invocation, part love letter to everyone who has felt the wrongness and wondered if another world was possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46942459756683,"sku":"9781919496313","price":20.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/pJF-Z3XAqI9781919496313.webp?v=1779022227","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-awakening-a-mythical-novella-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}