The Lightless Guide - CRYSTAL DELLIOS

Autor: CRYSTAL DELLIOS

Editorial: CRYSTAL DELLIOS

Año: 12/10/2026

ISBN: 9798182906807

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Páginas: 158 pp.

Idioma: eng

EAN: 9798182906807

What if the only thing capable of guiding you home was also the very thing that could steal your past? Beneath the endless twilight of the Umbral Bough, where ancient trees devour the light and the forest slowly erases the memories of those who wander too far, Elias Hawthorne has built his life around one unbreakable rule: never lose sight of home. A solitary timber-hewer, Elias survives by maintaining strict boundaries. He repairs his fences, marks the forest?s edges, and carries a compass that has never truly worked. Ever since he became lost in the woods as a seven-year-old boy, the terror of disorientation has haunted him. He knows what it means to be swallowed by the darkness, stripped of familiar paths and the memories that make a person who they are. Then Clara Whitfield arrives at his gate. Pale, unnervingly calm, and carrying an ash yoke laden with cold brass lanterns, Clara claims to sell Lucent Cages-strange, unlit vessels that require no oil or flame. They cast no light, reveal no hidden trail, and appear utterly useless to anyone who holds them. Yet when Elias takes one in his hand, an invisible force awakens inside his chest, pulling him with relentless certainty toward his own front door. For the first time in twenty years, Elias possesses something that seems more reliable than a compass. But the lantern?s impossible power comes at a terrible price. Its pull grows stronger, leading him toward a microscopic room sealed behind cloudy glass-a lost piece of a life he can barely remember. The more he learns about Clara and the cages she carries, the more he begins to suspect that the promise of finding home conceals a far darker purpose. As the settlement?s old warnings resurface, Elias discovers that the forest?s hunger reaches beyond flesh and bone. It can consume the shape of a home, erase the memories attached to a threshold, and leave its victims desperately clinging to empty objects in the hope of finding their way back. Somewhere in the drowned mire, another broken man has already fallen into the lantern?s grasp. And Clara, the mysterious peddler who walks the boundary between the living world and the swallowing woods, may be both prisoner and instrument of the ancient force she serves. With a brutal storm closing over the canopy and the lantern?s hold tightening around his past, Elias must venture beyond the boundaries that have protected him for most of his life. To confront the truth hidden inside the brass cage, he will have to face the childhood terror that shaped him-and question whether safety is worth the price of surrendering his freedom.**The Lightless Guide** is a haunting dark-fantasy tale of forgotten homes, stolen memories, and the dangerous comfort of certainty. Atmospheric and unsettling, it explores the fragile line between protection and imprisonment, asking what truly guides us when familiar landmarks disappear-and whether finding our way home means following a light, or learning to walk through the darkness on our own.
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