The Village That Never Grew Old

von Jean Green

166 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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When Claire Bennett's carriage is deliberately sabotaged on a remote mountain pass, she expects to find danger, but nothing prepares her for Oakhaven-a hidden village that should not exist.After surviving the crash, Claire crosses a strange boundary of salt, bone dust, and iron and discovers a settlement trapped in an impossible spring. The flowers never wither, the sunlight never truly changes, and every inhabitant appears forever young. Yet something is terribly wrong. The villagers never blink. They never breathe. Their skin is cold and waxen, their voices ring without the sound of lungs, and beneath their perfect smiles lies the unmistakable scent of embalming chemicals.Led into the home of Matron Margaret Harrington, Claire quickly realizes that she is not being treated as a guest. The villagers are fascinated by the warmth of her living blood and the frantic rhythm of her heart. They speak of an approaching equinox feast and watch her pulse with hungry anticipation. Escape seems impossible when every path through the surrounding forest bends back toward Oakhaven, returning travelers to the same salt boundary.Then Claire meets Julian Mercer, a scarred and aging man who is unlike everyone else in the village. Julian reveals the horrifying truth: Oakhaven has been dead for three hundred years. Its inhabitants are preserved corpses sustained by an ancient power beneath the village well, feeding upon the life force of travelers to maintain their unnatural youth.Julian has spent decades resisting the village's influence, paying for his humanity by carrying the stolen years of others within his own aging body. Together, he and Claire must uncover the secret beneath Oakhaven and find a way to destroy the force that has imprisoned the dead and trapped the living.As the village prepares for its final harvest, Claire faces a terrifying choice. To escape, she must confront the ancient mechanism that has controlled Oakhaven for centuries-and risk losing the one person who has shown her what it truly means to be alive.A dark supernatural mystery filled with eerie atmosphere, relentless suspense, impossible geography, and a haunting struggle between eternal youth and mortal life, The Village That Never Grew Old is ultimately a story about freedom, sacrifice, and the beauty of a life that is allowed to end.

• Themen: Belletristik Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches Okkultes / Paranormaler Horror
• ISBN: 9798330313822
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Jean Green