CELINE STANKOWSKI

Céline Stankowski is a Nice-born author drawn to porous borders: between the sacred and the profane, science and vertigo, memory and oblivion. Very early on, reading became a shelter—a cabin—then a springboard into writing.

In 2022, she published *The Last Pope*, a dense, symbolic novel where mysticism, religious history, and an intimate apocalypse intersect. She later offered a true rebirth: *The Sealed Truth*, a fully rewritten version—more fluid, more luminous, closer to the characters. The voices gain nuance, the narration grows leaner, the themes breathe.

With *PROTOCOLE HOPE*, Céline shifts both setting and tempo. Destination: Chicago. A medical examiner, Hope Wilson, autopsies bodies while an unknown presence autopsies her memory. Crime scenes echo each other, dreams overflow, and the city becomes a cracked mirror. A psychological thriller and urban chamber piece, *PROTOCOLE HOPE* explores what slips behind the unsaid—less who kills than who manipulates, who survives, and at what cost.

Céline claims varied influences (from psychological suspense to myth), but seeks above all emotional accuracy: characters who are fissured, alive, and sometimes darkly funny. She now lives in Moselle.

Her thanks go to the readers who walk this path alongside her—the cabin stays open: we laugh, we tremble, and we move forward together.