The Twenty-Ninth (Book Two of the Station Nine Ledger) - Couverture souple

N, Felix

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1997156288 ISBN 13 : 9781997156284

Editeur : Felix N, 2026

Synopsis

Her name is already in the book, in her own handwriting, and she did not write it.

Anne Ahearn takes the night desk at the Pelham Annex to be someone useful and unremarkable. She has spent eleven years at an emergency desk asking strangers, Who can we call? and writing none on every form that asks her. On her eighth night she finds a green cloth ledger open on the sorting table. Fifth: Anne Ahearn. Beside it, a date that exists only once every four years: the twenty-ninth of February.

The Annex keeps a register of the unclaimed dead. It also, quietly and on the leap day, takes one living name, the one with no one behind it. The director calls it the least harm. A shy, loud, nineteen-year-old archivist who reads everything aloud calls it a list of people. A coastal surveyor, Tomás Quispe-Reyes, who measures a drowning cemetery for a living and has not said his brother's name in four years, calls it the reason he did not sleep.

As the tide takes the low ground and the board prepares to ship every record out of the building, Anne has ten weeks, one sister she cannot bring herself to forgive or to ask for, and a ledger that moves toward her whenever she tries to put it down. The only way to break it is to do the one thing she has never done: say a name out loud, and ask someone to stay.

A dark, atmospheric coastal mystery with a restrained slow-burn romance, a reckoning between sisters, and a bargain that spreads a debt instead of paying it.

Book Two of The Station Nine Ledger. A stand-alone story with a satisfying ending.

Read it with the rain on and one lamp lit.

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À propos de l'auteur

About the Author

Felix N.BBA.MA.QA'rb. writes fiction that treats ordinary communities as the site of extraordinary moral weight - small towns and mid-sized cities where a single formula, a single silence, or a single inherited decision turns out to carry the whole history of who a place has chosen to protect and who it has chosen to let go quiet.

Felix's work returns often to the same conviction: that injustice rarely announces itself as villainy. It arrives instead as policy, as process, as the reasonable-sounding choice a frightened, well-intentioned person makes under pressure - and that fiction's job is to make that choice visible again, long after the institutions built on top of it have learned to call it normal.

Felix lives close enough to water to never quite stop thinking about what it remembers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Felix N
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1997156288
• ISBN 13: 9781997156284
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible