Erscheint: August 2026

The Shape of Rain

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Annette Grantham

Verlag:

Dark Road Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35634307

EAN: 9798235155039

Erscheint: August 2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 36.50

Beschreibung

Magical realism at its most tender: a story of grief, thread, and the impossible woman hidden in the paint. She built a cage for a ghost, and the ghost looked back. In the mist-shrouded peaks of Puerto Rico, where the rain falls with devotional persistence, Elena Reyes has spent a decade stitching the town's sorrows into quilts to keep from drowning in her own. As a practitioner of Costura Mágica, she knows how to turn raw grief into beautiful, managed order. But when she salvages a box of paint-stiffened drop cloths discarded by a reclusive artist, her needle strikes a scream in the fabric she cannot ignore. Rhys Vaughn was once a master of vibrant color, a celebrated painter whose canvases were emotional excavations. Now he haunts his own studio, painting sterile white Portraits of Absence to wall out the memory of the woman he loved, and the crash that ended her music. Then a single sunbeam pierces Elena's workshop, and the chaotic smears on the drop cloths resolve into something impossible: a spectral woman with a cello and a sorrowful smile. Elena has found the ghost Rhys tried to discard, a woman trapped behind the glass of his guilt. To unlock the story buried in the pigment, Elena must walk into Rhys's storm. She must prove that a story isn't just in the big pieces; it's in the wear, the stains, the way a thread puckers from a hasty mending. But bearing witness has a cost. As the outside world closes in, Elena finds herself choosing between the safe harbor of her ordinary life and a living current that threatens to pull her under. The Shape of Rain is the haunting conclusion to The Costura Mágica Chronicles, a lush work of magical realism about the courage it takes to face the past and find hope in the shape of a single, perfect line of blue. Step into the storm. The final stitch is waiting.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Annette Grantham

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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