A Pair of Shoes for a Lost Love

von Blanco

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the fog-choked industrial city of Oakhaven, Evelyn Cross is a gifted textile conservator haunted by mysterious lapses of time. During her work restoring a centuries-old vestment, she discovers that her hands have somehow continued stitching while her conscious mind was absent. Her doctor dismisses the episodes as hysteria, but Evelyn knows something far stranger is happening.Her search for rare crimson silk leads her to Madame Vane, an antique dealer who gives her a pair of extraordinary scarlet cordwain shoes. The moment Evelyn touches them, she experiences impossible visions of locked doors, black water, forgotten streets, and lives that seem to belong to other people. The shoes do not merely fit her feet-they remember them.Soon Evelyn discovers that the strange shoes are connected to three men who should have nothing in common: clocksmith Marcus Vance, asylum painter Thomas Finch, and her dying neighbor, cellist Andrew Cole. Their documents contain handwriting so identical that it appears to have come from the same hand, despite being written decades apart.The deeper Evelyn investigates, the more terrifying the pattern becomes. The scarlet shoes appear to be guiding her toward a buried history of obsession, grief, identity, and repeated lives. Her connection to Andrew grows increasingly painful as she realizes that the love she thought was hers may have roots stretching far beyond their present lives. Yet the shoes are not simply bringing her toward a lost lover. They are carrying her toward a threshold where memory, death, and time itself seem to overlap.When the shoes seize control of her body, Evelyn is forced to follow their path through the distorted architecture of Oakhaven. Their destination is a hidden garret filled with paintings of Evelyn in countless forms-drowning, dying, running-always bound by the same scarlet ribbons. There, the distinction between artist, lover, victim, and memory begins to collapse.At the climax, the ancient mechanism behind the shoes opens a final threshold: an immense white expanse beyond the divided timelines and suffocating fog of Oakhaven. The empty red shoes cross into the light on their own, leaving Evelyn behind beside Andrew's quiet body.A haunting gothic mystery about love that refuses to die, A Pair of Shoes for a Lost Love explores the difference between remembering someone and possessing them. When the past finally opens its door, Evelyn must decide whether love means following the dead-or allowing them to walk away.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9798182761451
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: ALEXIS BLANCO