The Girl Without a Shadow

von Dawn Frank

162 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

For twenty years, Elena Crawford has lived as an impossibility. She has a heartbeat, a body, memories, and a life in the rain-soaked industrial city of Blackshore-but she casts no shadow. She has learned to hide from sunlight, crowded streets, and curious eyes, relying on Elias Hawthorne's strange medicinal tinctures to keep her freezing body from collapsing. To Elena, her missing shadow is a shameful deformity she must conceal at all costs.Then Tristan Everhart finds her.He is a young man with a body that burns from within, a heart beating at twice the normal rhythm, and a shadow that behaves like a living creature. When his darkness reaches Elena, the two become mysteriously tethered. Tristan reveals the impossible truth: Elena is carrying something that belongs to him. For twenty years, he has hunted the girl who stole his shadow-but after discovering the lonely prisoner behind the mystery, he realizes that Elena was never a thief. She was another victim.Their connection becomes a dangerous secret when Ronan Blackwell and his umbral hounds begin hunting them. Behind the pursuit lies the Blackwood Loom, an ancient machine capable of manipulating the boundary between body, shadow, memory, and identity. Anastasia Blackwood knows the truth about Tristan's past and intends to use their resonance to destroy them both.As Elena and Tristan uncover the story of their divided existence, they learn that their lives were shaped by an old act of desperation. Tristan's father once sought to save his dying son, while Elena was created from what was taken from him. Neither of them was meant to live as they do. Yet twenty years of shared pain have bound them together more deeply than blood ever could.When Anastasia finally traps them inside the Loom, Elena faces the ultimate choice: disappear so Tristan can become whole, or fight for a life neither of them was supposed to have. With the Blackwood inheritance collapsing around them and the rising sun threatening to dissolve Elena's synthetic existence, their only hope is to stop seeing themselves as two broken halves.Their battle ends not with one person consuming the other, but with recognition, sacrifice, and love. Elena survives the light. Tristan's burning body finally finds balance. The two are no longer divided by a stolen shadow or an inherited curse.At dawn, Elena steps into sunlight for the first time in twenty years-and discovers one seamless shadow beneath them both.

• Themen: Belletristik Fantasyliteratur Dark Fantasy
• ISBN: 9798182769471
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: DAWN FRANK