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A Brother, Not Just a Mystery: The Emotional Core of Portals

Chester Craig's novel is built around grief as much as discovery — and a reunion that comes with an impossible price
New Rochelle, New York Jul 30, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - Portals is, at its heart, a story about what obsession is actually made of. Dr. Alex Reeves doesn't chase Site 7-Gamma out of scientific curiosity alone -- the search begins with a journal left behind by a missing brother, Jordan, and three years spent refusing to let that disappearance stay unexplained. When Alex finally finds Jordan inside the Weaver's City, alive but changed -- now part of the network's foundational architecture -- the reunion isn't an ending. It's the beginning of an impossible choice.
Author Chester Craig frames the novel's climax around a single question: is Alex's fight to save the network really about protecting forty-seven worlds, or about not losing a sibling twice. AM I AM is spotlighting this emotional throughline as a central reason Portals resonates beyond its science fiction premise.
Available now:
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Portals-Chester-Craig/dp/B0GZ55G47K/
- Apple Books (ebook): https://books.apple.com/us/book/portals/id6764547340
- Apple Books (audiobook): https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/portals/id679251155
- Books2Read: https://books2read.com/u/4EOrRO
- Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/portals-chester-craig/aae080e23f97025c?ean=9798235814622
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