Alchemy

By Lucas Augusto

A letter from the dead. A town drowning in secrets. A past that refuses to stay buried.

Twenty-two years ago, Elena Voss fled her coastal hometown of Seabrook, leaving behind the ashes of a lighthouse fire that claimed her twin brother, Daniel. Now a successful clinical psychologist, Elena has built a life on logic and control, carefully compartmentalizing the trauma of her past.

But the past finds her. A cryptic letter arrives, penned in her mother's unmistakable handwriting-a mother who has been dead for three years. The message is impossible, yet undeniable: "The lighthouse calls for you. What was broken must be mended... The shadows are growing longer, and only you can bring the light."

Compelled by a force she cannot explain, Elena returns to Seabrook, a town steeped in hushed whispers and long-held secrets. The familiar lighthouse looms over the harbor, a silent monument to her loss. As she steps back into the world she abandoned, she encounters enigmatic figures like Lucas Blackwood, a historian who seems to know more than he reveals, and faces the wary glances of locals who remember the Voss family's tragedy.

Elena, the psychologist trained to unravel the human mind, must now confront the ghosts of her own past. Was her brother's death truly an accident? What secrets does the lighthouse hold? And who-or what-sent the impossible letter?
In a town where memory is treacherous and reality blurs, Elena must delve into the heart of her family's darkness and the town's collective shadow, embarking on a psychological and perhaps supernatural journey of alchemy-transforming grief into truth, and ashes into redemption. But some secrets are guarded for a reason, and digging them up might unleash more than she can handle.

Dive into "Alchemy," a gripping psychological suspense novel where the lines between grief and the supernatural blur, and the search for truth could be the most dangerous alchemy of all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F7FBCZ2K
• ISBN13: 9798282262056
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"