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Overview

The Golden Guard Prototypes is a gothic psychological horror novel about repetition, control, and the violence of trying to perfect what was never meant to be owned.

In a hidden laboratory ruled by cold logic and buried grief, Belos creates replacement after replacement-children engineered to replicate a lost ideal. Each one wakes, learns, deviates, and is quietly destroyed. Failure is documented. Memory is erased. Grief is converted into process.

But something goes wrong.

The prototypes begin to remember.

What starts as an experiment in obedience becomes a slow unraveling of identity itself, as emotional containment fails and suppressed voices push back against correction. The Golden Guard mask, once a symbol of control, becomes a prison for countless discarded selves-each iteration closer to something uncontrollable, something real.

This is not a story about heroes or redemption. It is a descent into psychological cruelty, emotional erasure, and the horror of being manufactured to replace someone you can never truly be. Bleak, intimate, and mind-bending, The Golden Guard Prototypes explores cloning as trauma, authority as obsession, and the terrifying cost of refusing to mourn.

Intended for mature readers, this novel lingers long after the final page-asking whether containment ever truly works, or whether all suppressed grief eventually screams.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798295611650
  • ISBN-10: 9798295611650
  • Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
  • Publish Date: February 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.21 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.32 pounds
  • Page Count: 102

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