The Eternal Rose - Couverture souple

Jones, Sashara

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235928664

Editeur : M&M, 2026

Synopsis

Sashara Jones spent twelve years as a 911 dispatcher, reaching through the panic on the other end of a line and handing people back something steadier than she'd received. She was good at it. In twelve years, she never once lost the thread of a call.

Her husband called it a defect. *Emotionally broken*, he said - not cruelly, not loudly. The way a doctor says a word he's already looked up.

She left four days later.

California was supposed to be the ordinary part. A plain apartment in Moreno Valley, a mountain trail on Saturdays, a blog almost nobody read. Then a comment arrived from a woman named Helena Thorens, who ran a small catering and florals company out in Highland, and who listened the way no one had listened to Sashara in years. Who asked, over coffee: *who took care of you, while you were taking care of everyone else?*

No one had. That was the whole opening.

Her business was called The Eternal Rose. It photographed beautifully.

What follows is not a haunting in the usual sense. It's Friday nights and string lights and a house full of easy, borrowed warmth. It's a gift offered at the exact moment a lonely woman is least equipped to refuse it. It's a stranger waiting under a streetlight to deliver a courtesy, a bathhouse closed three years for renovations nobody ever permitted, and a slow, patient architecture of belonging built by something that has had a very long time to learn how wrongness can be made to feel like home.

By the time Sashara understands what she has been chosen for, she has already said thank you for it.

The dangerous thing, she learns, was never feeling too much. It was standing close to someone who feels nothing at all, and being warmed by it anyway.

Some names have been changed. Nothing else has.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sashara Jones writes across all genres - horror, science fiction, romance, and erotica - with a reporter's instinct for the truth and a gift for seeing what others can't. The great-granddaughter of a renowned psychic, Sashara inherited more than the family name; an intuitive sense that has shaped both her life and her fiction. Before turning to storytelling full-time, she worked as an investigative journalist, and that same rigor - verify everything, follow it wherever it leads - still drives her writing today. She is the author of The Crimson Chronicle. Sashara lives in California's Inland Empire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: M&M
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235928664
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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