Where the Temple Disappeared Every Morning

von Dorothy Whitesboro

126 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Nathaniel Cross has spent a decade looking through a camera lens, documenting the world's tragedies while keeping his own buried behind carefully controlled images. When he travels into Vietnam's Central Highlands to investigate a strange local legend, he becomes lost in a violent storm and crosses an invisible threshold into a place that should not exist.Beyond the Gate of Welcoming stands Chùa V¿nh C¿u-the Eternal Temple, an impossible sanctuary hidden inside the forest. Its monks know Nathaniel by another name, Minh, and its blind Abbot, Silas, knows secrets about Nathaniel's father that no stranger could possibly know. Then comes the revelation that transforms the mystery into a nightmare: every morning, the temple disappears.Nathaniel soon realizes that the temple is connected to his family's darkest secret. His father, Maxwell Rhodes, built a celebrated legacy around a tragedy that was never truly understood. Nathaniel's mother, Ophelia, supposedly died in an accident that left behind no wreckage. Yet inside the temple, Nathaniel sees a woman wearing the lotus pendant from the photograph he has secretly carried for years.His camera begins recording things that ordinary eyes cannot perceive. Photographs distort. Faces disappear. The temple reveals memories rather than simple images, forcing Nathaniel to confront the difference between witnessing the truth and hiding behind it. As he descends deeper into the mystery, he discovers that the temple's vanishing is tied to an old fire, the deaths of monks, and a history deliberately transformed into myth.With the help of Leah and the strange powers of True Sight, Nathaniel must enter the past and witness the event his family tried to erase. What he finds is not the heroic story his father created, but the ugly truth behind the legend.In the end, Nathaniel captures the image that can finally expose the buried crime: young Maxwell standing inside the burning temple while the monks remain behind him, their final moments preserved as witnesses rather than ghosts. The temple disappears for the last time, and Nathaniel walks into the morning without the camera that once served as his shield.Where the Temple Disappeared Every Morning is a supernatural mystery about memory, inherited guilt, family secrets, and the courage required to stop photographing the truth from a safe distance-and finally step inside it.

• Themen: Belletristik Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches Okkultes / Paranormaler Horror
• ISBN: 9798182781435
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Dorothy McCanlies Whitesboro