Faces in the Water (The Memory Keepers, Band 3) - Softcover

Brunell, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798230323426

Verlag: Raymond Brunell, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

When a tragic accident leaves Laurel Marek with prosopagnosia-the inability to recognize faces-she believes her artistic career is over. But the mysterious lake near her inherited studio holds secrets that transform her neurological condition from curse to supernatural gift. Every brushstroke awakens memories that aren't her own, voices from the disappeared who speak through frequencies only her rewired neurons can decode. As Laurel paints faces she's never seen but somehow knows, she discovers that her father's disappearance twenty-three years ago wasn't an accident-it was a calling. The lake preserves more than bodies; it archives consciousness itself, creating a living repository of everyone who its depths have ever claimed. Now the thirty-three-year cycle is reaching its peak, and Laurel must choose between the safety of ignorance and the terrible responsibility of becoming the lake's next Memory Keeper. With forest ranger Caleb anchoring her to the living world, Laurel ventures deeper into the lake's luminous depths, where the boundary between memory and reality dissolves. She'll paint portraits of the missing, translate messages from the suspended, and learn that some forms of love transcend the boundaries between life and death. But the lake's gifts come with a price-and accepting her inheritance means choosing between the ordinary life she's known and a destiny that will connect her to mysteries older than the town itself. A haunting blend of literary magical realism and supernatural mystery, Faces in the Water explores neurodivergent perception as a gateway to otherworldly truth. This is a story about finding beauty in difference, recognizing that what seems broken might be precisely what's needed to bridge the space between worlds.

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Raymond Brunell crafts genre-defying fiction that explores the intersections of consciousness, memory, and technological evolution. His work has been praised for its lyrical prose and authentic portrayal of neurodivergent experience. When not writing, he can be found investigating acoustic anomalies in small-town lakes.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Raymond Brunell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798230323426
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214
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