Six Deaths, One Life

von Martin Restelle

118 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Ainsley Morgan has spent her life believing in facts, records, and the certainty of the past. As a researcher in the city archives, she trusts evidence because history cannot change.Then she begins dreaming of her own death.Night after night, Ainsley sees herself drowning beneath dark water while a mysterious man reaches for her. In other dreams, she burns, falls, or dies in violent circumstances. The same man is always there, watching her die with an expression of unbearable grief.For three years, Ainsley records the nightmares as a psychological anomaly.Then the first death happens in real life.Crossing the Old North Bridge, Ainsley is struck by a car and thrown into the freezing river. As she sinks beneath the surface, she sees the same silver ceiling from her dreams-and the same calloused hand reaching through the water.The stranger saves her.He knows her name.His name is Nathaniel.Ainsley soon discovers that her nightmares are not predictions in the ordinary sense. They are fragments of six different deaths connected to a mysterious I Ching pattern known as the "Six Lines of Mortality." Each line represents a stage in a cycle that has followed Ainsley and Nathaniel across centuries.Drowning. Fire. Falling. Impalement. Betrayal.And finally, the Sixth Line-the Extinction Line.Nathaniel has been protecting Ainsley for lifetimes. Every time she dies, he finds her again. Every time fate creates another death, he takes the blow meant for her. His love has become a ritual of sacrifice, and he believes that if he dies one final time, the hexagram will be satisfied and Ainsley will finally be free.But Ainsley realizes that this is exactly what fate wants.If Nathaniel sacrifices himself again, the cycle will close-and repeat. She will live, he will die, and in another lifetime she will dream of him again.The only way to break the pattern is to stop playing the roles they have been assigned.As the Shifting Maze forces the final deaths upon them, Ainsley must confront terrifying visions that make Nathaniel appear to be the architect of every tragedy. The hexagram tempts her with a simple solution: kill the man who has followed her through centuries and walk away free.But Ainsley refuses.She understands that the I Ching is not a fixed sentence. It is a moving pattern, shaped by choice. The sixth line does not demand another death. It demands that the cycle itself be challenged.For the first time, Ainsley chooses to save Nathaniel instead of allowing him to save her.Six deaths have defined their love.Now they must find a way to live.

• Themen: Belletristik Fantasyliteratur Fantasy Romance
• ISBN: 9798182750707
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: MARTIN RESTELLE