Lucien (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Bevin Studstill, 2026

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Paperback. They wanted a son to fill the silence left by grief. What they brought home was something far older than childhood.When Rafe and Julia Volmer return from Mumbai with their five-year-old son's ashes, the void threatens to consume them. Six weeks later, they stand in a Portuguese orphanage, desperate for redemption, and find Lucien. Eight years old. Perfectly still. Perfectly quiet. The nuns say he was abandoned at a monastery. No birth certificate. No family history. No explanation for why other children refuse to look at him.The adoption is too fast. The paperwork has too many gaps. But grief makes people reckless, and love makes them blind.At his baptism, the holy water boils at the touch of his skin. The priest transfers to another country. The pediatrician who examines his blood vanishes after documenting anomalies that defy medical explanation. Photographs surface showing Lucien in orphanage pictures spanning decades, his face unchanged while the children around him age and disappear.Julia begins to see the pattern. Children who grow quiet around him. Families who fracture. Institutions that close ranks to protect secrets older than memory. She starts documenting everything, building an archive of testimonies from mothers who lost their children to something they cannot name.But the Church protects its own. The agencies bury what they cannot explain. And Rafe, the man she married, starts choosing Lucien over her. Night after night, she finds them together in the basement, sitting in silence, breathing in unison.When Julia's archive finally reaches other families, she believes she can save them. Instead, she watches her own words become a weapon. The same institutions that shielded Lucien now use her documentation to identify vulnerable families, to target the grieving, to deliver them directly to the boy with ancient eyes.He does not need to hunt. They bring themselves to him.Some horrors cannot be stopped. They can only be remembered.LUCIEN: The Child Without Breath is literary horror in the tradition of The Omen and We Need to Talk About Kevin. This is not a story of demons or exorcisms. This is the horror of a child who sits too still. Of a husband who slips away piece by piece. Of love that curdles into something unrecognizable. Of a mother who sees the truth and finds that no one will believe her. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Lucien (Paperback)
Auteur
Bevin Studstill
Éditeur
Bevin Studstill
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798235282766

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