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BOUNDLESS: ONCE UPON A TOMORROW
Reflekt—the world’s biggest beauty-tech empire—promised flawless perfection. They said the filters only changed how you looked.
They lied.
Reflekt doesn’t just polish faces. It rewrites reality. Alters memories. Smooths the past until the truth has nowhere to hold—so subtly most people never notice it happening.
Twenty-four-year-old Snow Spencer knows Reflekt from the inside. For her, this is personal. It began as her mother’s work—tech meant to reveal truth, not bury it. Then her mother was supposedly killed in a car crash that left no body and too many questions. Within days, Katerina Vale took over. She built Reflekt into an empire of edited truth—until no one can tell what’s real without her permission… and opting out is no longer an option.
Then a viral glitch cracks Reflekt’s feed, and everyone watches the edits happen live.
Snow teams up with the Seven—a rogue network of hackers and quantum experts—and races for the only thing that might expose the a quantum mirror. Her mother’s impossible prototype that won’t obey one clean version of reality.
Each step pulls them deeper into engineered memories, weaponized perception—and code designed to trap a mind until it can’t find itself again.
The safest thing Snow could do is stop looking. Let the lie keep her invisible.
Because in a world where truth is filtered and sold back to you, the most dangerous thing isn’t being lied to.
It’s wanting to believe the lies.
Once Upon a Tomorrow is Book 1 in The Shadow Archive — a series of standalone mysteries about the rules we live by… until we realize we’re the ones who wrote them.
They lied.
Reflekt doesn’t just polish faces. It rewrites reality. Alters memories. Smooths the past until the truth has nowhere to hold—so subtly most people never notice it happening.
Twenty-four-year-old Snow Spencer knows Reflekt from the inside. For her, this is personal. It began as her mother’s work—tech meant to reveal truth, not bury it. Then her mother was supposedly killed in a car crash that left no body and too many questions. Within days, Katerina Vale took over. She built Reflekt into an empire of edited truth—until no one can tell what’s real without her permission… and opting out is no longer an option.
Then a viral glitch cracks Reflekt’s feed, and everyone watches the edits happen live.
Snow teams up with the Seven—a rogue network of hackers and quantum experts—and races for the only thing that might expose the a quantum mirror. Her mother’s impossible prototype that won’t obey one clean version of reality.
Each step pulls them deeper into engineered memories, weaponized perception—and code designed to trap a mind until it can’t find itself again.
The safest thing Snow could do is stop looking. Let the lie keep her invisible.
Because in a world where truth is filtered and sold back to you, the most dangerous thing isn’t being lied to.
It’s wanting to believe the lies.
Once Upon a Tomorrow is Book 1 in The Shadow Archive — a series of standalone mysteries about the rules we live by… until we realize we’re the ones who wrote them.
309 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2026
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February 11, 2026
S. Zachary's Boundless: Once Upon a Tomorrow is a compelling and intellectually stimulating read. Zachary successfully portrays futuristic and quantum concepts in simple, clear language, masterfully driving suspense and curiosity throughout the novel. Holding a mirror to the present, we are challenged to think about the seemingly innocent digital features we are so accustomed to, to confront the slippery slope of our own technological trajectory and the unsettling possibilities of a future where 'reality' is merely one of many options.
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