The Great War did not just break men. It broke time.
Elias Vance returned from the Ypres Salient with a wooden leg, a mind carved hollow by survivor guilt, and an impossible memory. For twenty years, while the world marched onward into a fragile peace, Elias remained stuck in the pulling, monstrous mud of 1914. He remembers the shells, the gas, and the metallic tang of swallowed blood. Yet he also remembers a grand French manor house standing entirely untouched in the middle of No Man’s Land. It was a place where the clocks had stopped, where the rooms smelled of lavender, and where a girl named Élise de Chastenet stood at the window, waiting for a sun that never rose.
For two decades, the asylums called him mad. They told him the house was a phantom born of shell shock.
Then Élise begins to appear in his waking hours, her fingers leaving damp, muddy prints on his jacket.
Driven by a debt he cannot name, Elias returns to the scarred fields of Flanders. Guided by old trench logs, unmapped village whispers, and the blood-soaked soil itself, he hunts for the vanished estate. What he finds inside that temporal wound is not a sanctuary, but a horror. It is a family bound by a desperate, ancestral pact, a house that stays beautiful by feeding on the raw trauma of the dead, and a terrifying mechanism known as the Anguish Engine.
But pulling Élise out of the dark is only the first mistake.
Their escape shatters a delicate equilibrium, awakening powers that have spent centuries waiting in the shadows of the European continent. From the hidden tunnels of a secret railway to the forgotten vaults of drowned libraries, Elias and Élise find themselves hunted by men who do not merely want to record history; they want to weaponize it.
Every act of mercy in this broken landscape demands payment. Every step forward forces the earth to recount its prehistoric tally. Surrounded by occult scholars, secretive weavers, and lethal, forbidden artifacts, Elias must decide what a single life is worth when saving the girl he loves might tear the twentieth century completely open at the seams.
Turn the page, but listen closely to the silence between the notes. The past is not dead. It is simply waiting in the mud for the rain to fall again.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Great War did not just break men. It broke time.Elias Vance returned from the Ypres Salient with a wooden leg, a mind carved hollow by survivor guilt, and an impossible memory. For twenty years, while the world marched onward into a fragile peace, Elias remained stuck in the pulling, monstrous mud of 1914. He remembers the shells, the gas, and the metallic tang of swallowed blood. Yet he also remembers a grand French manor house standing entirely untouched in the middle of No Man's Land. It was a place where the clocks had stopped, where the rooms smelled of lavender, and where a girl named Elise de Chastenet stood at the window, waiting for a sun that never rose.For two decades, the asylums called him mad. They told him the house was a phantom born of shell shock.Then Elise begins to appear in his waking hours, her fingers leaving damp, muddy prints on his jacket.Driven by a debt he cannot name, Elias returns to the scarred fields of Flanders. Guided by old trench logs, unmapped village whispers, and the blood-soaked soil itself, he hunts for the vanished estate. What he finds inside that temporal wound is not a sanctuary, but a horror. It is a family bound by a desperate, ancestral pact, a house that stays beautiful by feeding on the raw trauma of the dead, and a terrifying mechanism known as the Anguish Engine.But pulling Elise out of the dark is only the first mistake.Their escape shatters a delicate equilibrium, awakening powers that have spent centuries waiting in the shadows of the European continent. From the hidden tunnels of a secret railway to the forgotten vaults of drowned libraries, Elias and Elise find themselves hunted by men who do not merely want to record history; they want to weaponize it.Every act of mercy in this broken landscape demands payment. Every step forward forces the earth to recount its prehistoric tally. Surrounded by occult scholars, secretive weavers, and lethal, forbidden artifacts, Elias must decide what a single life is worth when saving the girl he loves might tear the twentieth century completely open at the seams.Turn the page, but listen closely to the silence between the notes. The past is not dead. It is simply waiting in the mud for the rain to fall again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798274448352
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Great War did not just break men. It broke time.Elias Vance returned from the Ypres Salient with a wooden leg, a mind carved hollow by survivor guilt, and an impossible memory. For twenty years, while the world marched onward into a fragile peace, Elias remained stuck in the pulling, monstrous mud of 1914. He remembers the shells, the gas, and the metallic tang of swallowed blood. Yet he also remembers a grand French manor house standing entirely untouched in the middle of No Man's Land. It was a place where the clocks had stopped, where the rooms smelled of lavender, and where a girl named Élise de Chastenet stood at the window, waiting for a sun that never rose.For two decades, the asylums called him mad. They told him the house was a phantom born of shell shock.Then Élise begins to appear in his waking hours, her fingers leaving damp, muddy prints on his jacket.Driven by a debt he cannot name, Elias returns to the scarred fields of Flanders. Guided by old trench logs, unmapped village whispers, and the blood-soaked soil itself, he hunts for the vanished estate. What he finds inside that temporal wound is not a sanctuary, but a horror. It is a family bound by a desperate, ancestral pact, a house that stays beautiful by feeding on the raw trauma of the dead, and a terrifying mechanism known as the Anguish Engine.But pulling Élise out of the dark is only the first mistake.Their escape shatters a delicate equilibrium, awakening powers that have spent centuries waiting in the shadows of the European continent. From the hidden tunnels of a secret railway to the forgotten vaults of drowned libraries, Elias and Élise find themselves hunted by men who do not merely want to record history; they want to weaponize it.Every act of mercy in this broken landscape demands payment. Every step forward forces the earth to recount its prehistoric tally. Surrounded by occult scholars, secretive weavers, and lethal, forbidden artifacts, Elias must decide what a single life is worth when saving the girl he loves might tear the twentieth century completely open at the seams.Turn the page, but listen closely to the silence between the notes. The past is not dead. It is simply waiting in the mud for the rain to fall again. Seller Inventory # 9798274448352
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A haunted man. A house that shouldn't exist. A war that never ended.1938. Elias Vance, a veteran of the Great War, lives a quiet, mad life in a small French cottage. He is plagued by an impossible memory: a grand manor, the "Maison Forte," that vanished from the mud of the Ypres Salient. Locals dismiss him as "The Lost Soldier," a man broken by shell shock. But for Elias, the house, and the ghostly woman who haunts his thoughts, are terrifyingly real.When a chance discovery pulls him back to that impossible place, Elias finds himself trapped. Not just in the *Maison Forte*, but in a single, repeating day in 1914, with the aristocratic de Chastenet family-all blissfully unaware that the Great War is about to consume them.As Elias battles a dark family matriarch and a curse that bends time itself, he realizes he is not the only one trapped. To free Elise, the ethereal woman he has come to love, he must unravel a terrible secret at the heart of the war-a secret that will demand his sanity, his future, and shatter his understanding of the past.*The Lost Soldier* is a gripping blend of gothic horror, psychological thriller, and dark historical fantasy. It's a story of love, obsession, and the devastating echoes of a war that refuses to die. Prepare to be immersed in a world where history is a hungry ghost, and the past is a prison you can never truly escape.Discover the terrifying truth behind the Maison Forte. Begin *The Lost Soldier Saga* today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798274448352
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