by booksbyjeffrey
When a visiting mathematics student studying in Toronto is found dead, his body bent at impossible angles, investigators recover a notebook filled with strange geometric patterns.As catastrophic events follow, from boiling rain to an expanding sinkhole that devours wildlife, CSIS officer Maya Talbot is assigned to investigate. When her brother Simon disappears near the epicenter, the case quickly becomes personal.
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Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
At this conversion, the Action Rising Stars bar (≈8 new followers/day) costs about 2.2k views/day — the story currently gets ~5.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
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