Insensible Loss

By Paul Michael Peters

Book Overview

A 200-year love story that turns into something far darker.

1839. Twenty-year-old Viktor Erikson, first mate aboard the swift opium clipper Ponthieva, sails south from Savannah on a commission shrouded in secrecy. The expedition's leader is a brilliant, obsessive scientist. His passenger - and Viktor's undoing - is the scientist's seventeen-year-old daughter, Morgana de la Motte: beautiful, raven-haired, raised on four continents, and bored by every man who has ever tried to own her.

Their destination is a rumor whispered in dead languages and guarded by a vanished civilization deep in the Yucat n. What they find there will give them everything they ever wanted.

And take two centuries to collect the price.

2053. Olivia, a young nurse running from a relationship she should have left sooner, sits at the bedside of a dying man with no name, no family, and no memory. He carries only a battered leather book - a memoir, or perhaps a confession, written in 1839. He asks her to read it to him.

She does.

And the longer she reads, the less certain she becomes about who is lying in the bed in front of her - and about who is about to walk through the door.

For readers who loved The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and wished she had teeth.

Insensible Loss is a braided gothic novel that begins as a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, deepens into a story of love and slow betrayal across a century of American history, and closes as a contemporary thriller about the long shadow of a controlling partner - and the moment a woman finally stops running.

It is a book about the cost of getting what you want. About the difference between staying and being trapped. About what we forgive in the people we love, and what we should never have forgiven at all.

It will leave you arguing with the friend you give it to.

Praise for the world of Paul Michael Peters

Genre-blending speculative historical fiction in the tradition of Diane Setterfield, Audrey Niffenegger, and Deborah Harkness - for readers who want their immortality stories with consequences, their love stories with shadows, and their endings earned rather than promised.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0989178595
• ISBN13: 9780989178594
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Paul Michael Peters
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"