Book Two — The Hidden Corridor — Launching July 2025
The Spirale — eye within a spiral

A cinematic thriller trilogy

The
Spirale
Trilogy

Hidden chambers. Corrected records.
A corridor that listens when you count to eight.

Signal

01

The earth learned how to keep a secret.

02

09:17 lasted longer than it should have.

03

The fourth ring does not open from the outside.

04

Count to eight.

The Trilogy

Three thresholds.
One unfolding pattern.

From wartime France to modern intelligence corridors — a structure no one fully understands until it begins correcting the world around it.

Spirale — Book One cover

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Spirale

In occupied France, Lucille Violette discovers a hidden chamber beneath her family home — and the first sign that the spiral is not just a symbol, but a system.

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Launching July 2025

The Hidden Corridor

When a timestamp changes after the fact and a classified event at Cheltenham refuses to stay contained, the corridor moves from theory to threat.

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The Fourth Ring

Inside the corridor, the rules are clearer: do not bargain, do not force it, and never assume the fourth ring opens from the outside.

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Characters

Portraits from
the corridor

The characters of The Spirale Trilogy are not investigators. They are witnesses — people who arrived at the house, or the corridor, or the record, in the right way. They asked about the cost first. That is how the corridor recognised them.

Claire and James arriving at La Maison Violette

La Maison Violette — first arrival

A scene from the orchard

The orchard, December

Claire and James — character portrait

Claire & James — the witnesses

The Rules

Some systems prefer to be approached carefully.

The corridor has its own logic. These are not warnings. They are observations — made by those who entered without bargaining and returned to say so. The corridor is not hostile. It simply remembers everything.

  • IDo not answer the wrong knock.
  • IIDo not force the corridor.
  • IIICount to eight.
  • IVNot every door is only a door.
  • VDo not bargain for what must return on its own.

The World

Three concepts. One architecture.

001 — The Spiral

The Spiral

It appears in frost before it appears in stone. It appears in stone before it appears in the record. By the time it appears in the record, it has been present for some time. No one agrees on what it measures.

002 — The Corridor

The Corridor

A repeatable alignment between states that should not be adjacent. It does not transport. It compares. Everything that has ever passed through it has left something behind — and taken something with it that it did not intend to take.

003 — The Rings

The Four Rings

Each ring holds a different kind of record. The first three can be approached. The fourth opens only from the inside. No one who has reached the fourth ring has ever described what opening it felt like. They describe only that it did.

Richard Wardle — author portrait

The Author

Richard Wardle

Richard Wardle writes thrillers built on the premise that the most dangerous systems are not weapons — they are records. The Spirale Trilogy began with a single question: what if the thing under the house was not a vault, but a witness?

Book One, Spirale, is available now. Book Two, The Hidden Corridor, launches July 2025. Book Three is written.

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