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Requiem of Heaven and Hell, Book 2
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James Fowler
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BEVIN STUDSTILL
They wanted a son to fill the silence left by grief. What they brought home was something far older than childhood.
When Rafe and Julia Volmer return from Mumbai with their five-year-old son's ashes, the void threatens to consume them. Six weeks later, they stand in a Portuguese orphanage, desperate for redemption, and find Lucien. Eight years old. Perfectly still. Perfectly quiet. The nuns say he was abandoned at a monastery. No birth certificate. No family history. No explanation for why other children refuse to look at him.
The adoption is too fast. The paperwork has too many gaps. But grief makes people reckless, and love makes them blind.
At his baptism, the holy water boils at the touch of his skin. The priest transfers to another country. The pediatrician who examines his blood vanishes after documenting anomalies that defy medical explanation. Photographs surface showing Lucien in orphanage pictures spanning decades, his face unchanged while the children around him age and disappear.
(P)2026 Bevin Studstill