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The Friar's Lantern

The Friar's Lantern

by Greg Hickey

FBT review:

Step into a mind-bending thriller where **you control the story**.

In *The Friar’s Lantern* by Greg Hickey, you’re both a paid volunteer in a high-stakes neuroscience experiment and a juror deciding whether a respected math professor is a murderer. Every choice you make twists the plot, triggers new clues, and leads to multiple shocking endings—some brilliant, some disastrous.

Perfect for fans of **indie fiction**, **choose your own adventure-style books**, and **thought-provoking psychological thrillers**, this eBook blends philosophy, suspense and interactive puzzles into one gripping read.

If you’re browsing bestseller lists and book blogs wondering what to read next, start here—and see just how responsible you really are for the choices you make.

Publisher Description:

You decide the story in this choose your own path novel. You may win one million (fictional) dollars. You will judge a man of murder.

You are an enterprising research volunteer hoping to strike it rich in a mind-bending mind reading experiment. You’re also a reluctant juror asked to decide if a respected mathematics professor is guilty of cold-blooded murder. And since you’re in charge of this choice-filled escapade, the consequences rest solely in your hands.

Based on your decisions, you’ll take a Turing test with a twist, discover how your future choices might influence the past, try your luck at Three Card Monte... and possibly send an innocent man to prison. And while you weigh chance, superstition, destiny, intuition and logic in making your decisions, ask yourself: are you responsible for your actions at all?

Choose wisely—if you can.

The Friar’s Lantern is a thought-provoking choose your own path novel. If you liked choosing your own adventure as a child and enjoy intriguing puzzles and multiple endings, you’ll love Greg Hickey’s engrossing story.

Get lost in this maze of a book today.

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