Seven Glass Needles Beneath Her Tongue

von Harees Hasson

104 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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In the dying realm of Oakhaven, winter does not merely fall; it devours. The royal conservatories are freezing over, the last Frost-Rose has withered to black ash, and the kingdom's final ember of survival hangs upon a terrifying decree. To forestall absolute ruin, the crown commands Linnea-a master artisan bound by silent blood-oaths-to venture beyond the petrified perimeter and plunge into the dynamic, thorn-choked Briar Labyrinth. Her quarry is a mythic titan: the Slumbering Beast, an ivory chimera whose colossal, frozen heartbeat alone plugs an ancient cosmic rift of primordial cold.Linnea enters the wilderness armed not with steel, but with shears carved of ancient whalebone, a spool of spun golden wire, and seven razor-thin needles of alchemical glass tucked beneath her tongue. Every swallow tastes of bitter copper; speaking a single syllable would slice her vocal cords to ribbons. Yet the physical agony pales before the horrifying secret of her craft. The wedding shroud she has been sent to weave is an insatiable parasite. With every seam driven into the creature's flesh, a core piece of Linnea's mind is violently excised. The first stitch consumes the memory of her mother's voice. The next strips away the perception of color, flattening reality into ash and soot. Soon, written runes degenerate into meaningless insect-scratches, and her capacity for sorrow, grief, and terror is wiped entirely clean.As Linnea hollows into a detached, mechanical vessel of bone and instinct, the royal vanguard breaches the sunken amphitheater to enforce the work. But the true abomination belongs to the court. Prince Xavier Cross is no righteous savior, but a hollow effigy of jointed witch-wood, animated by stolen royal blood and bloated, writhing parasites. The burial shroud was never meant to heal the kingdom-it is a transference chrysalis designed to trap Linnea within the monster's eternal torments while the citadel feasts on her sacrifice.Stripped of her past, her senses, and her very name, the seamstress faces a harrowing threshold. Only the seventh needle remains nested beneath her bleeding palate-the needle safeguarding the true, forgotten identity of the boy imprisoned within the beast. Tying the final knot will extinguish her soul forever. But shattering the glass between her teeth means defying the crown, rupturing the sky, and unleashing a wild, primordial dawn that will burn the old kingdom to kindling.Seven Glass Needles Beneath Her Tongue is an exquisite triumph of gothic folklore and visceral dark fantasy. Unfolding through an intimate sensory lens where language itself withers as the heroine forgets, this atmospheric novel explores the terrible cost of duty, the horror of erased identity, and the transcendent spark of sacrificial love. An unmissable dark fairy tale for readers of Angela Carter, Katherine Arden, and Leigh Bardugo.

• Themen: Belletristik Fantasyliteratur Dark Fantasy
• ISBN: 9798869284174
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: HAREES HASSON