4 chapter preview of Book 1 in the "Traces" seriesDaniel Bentes
Length19h 42m
About this audiobook
Samuel Cole has spent thirty-one years being told he's wrong.
The rock formations that don't match official surveys. The childhood neighbor everyone insists never existed. The strangers who vanish mid-stride while the world keeps walking.
He's learned to bury what he sees. To trust the records over his own eyes. To accept that his perceptions are the problem.
Then a woman appears who asks the question no one else will: What did you see before you decided not to see it?
Now Samuel is being hunted by people who shouldn't know his name, recruited by an organization older than recorded history, and forced to confront a conspiracy that makes every "false memory" he's ever had look like evidence. His twin sister Hannah is caught in the crossfire — marked by forces that see her existence as a problem to be solved.
To save her, Samuel will have to trust the one thing he's spent his whole life learning to doubt: himself.
The Mandela Effect isn't a glitch. It's a warning.
Memory
AlternateUniverse
Psychological
Mystery
Supernatural
Thriller
Conspiracy
Chosenone
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (2)
GenreScience Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length19 hrs 42 mins
Narrated bySelect Your Own
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1STRATA
4Chapter 2: Reunion
2Prologue: The Last Brother
5Chapter 3: Evidence
3Chapter 1: Strata
6Chapter 4: First Contact
About the author
Daniel Bentes
Daniel builds AI by day and conspiratorial fiction by night. Based in Norway, he brings a technologist's obsession with systems to epic storytelling — constructing worlds where information is power, institutions are complicit, and the wrong question can unravel everything. His work lives at the intersection of adventure, paranoid thriller, and deep speculative inquiry. He believes the most dangerous thing in any story is someone who starts asking why.View all by Daniel Bentes
