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Issued by Dr Jeremy J Noad on September 16, 2026. Source: EIN Presswire.
OXFORD, ENGLAND. Author Dr Jeremy J Noad is introducing readers to Original Echoes, the second novel in the Echoes Mysteries series, a historical time-slip mystery set between 1962 and Victorian Blackpool. Through former wartime intelligence officer Frederick “Fred” Langley’s investigation of a secret government project beneath the Winter Gardens, the novel explores memory, personal identity, institutional power, and the consequences of attempting to influence human behaviour.
Original Echoes is available in Kindle and paperback editions on Amazon.
A Government Project Hidden Beneath Blackpool
In Original Echoes, Fred Langley has left wartime intelligence behind and established himself as a journalist. His experience with coded information, conflicting evidence, and concealed motives makes him an appropriate observer when he is sent to Blackpool to assess Project EUNOMIA.
The confidential programme centres on an unusual Victorian apparatus discovered beneath the Winter Gardens. Despite its age, the machine continues to draw power. Government officials believe it was designed to influence behaviour through sound, atmosphere, and psychological suggestion, raising the possibility that it could be used to encourage public obedience during a period shaped by Cold War uncertainty. Fred’s assignment becomes increasingly complicated as records contradict one another, previous test subjects appear to have vanished, and his own recollections begin to conflict with documented events.
A Mystery Extending Back to 1895
As Project EUNOMIA approaches a larger test, Fred discovers that the apparatus may affect more than human behaviour. Its history leads to a mysterious performance at the Winter Gardens in 1895, an event that was documented yet somehow disappeared from Blackpool’s collective memory.
Activation of the machine sends Fred through a fracture in time and into Victorian Blackpool. There, his investigation brings him into contact with the Welcroft Society, an influential organisation seeking to use the apparatus to impose its ideas of social and moral order. At the centre of its plans is Clara Langdon, a young woman whose voice is required for a ritual she has not freely chosen.
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