Refracted
When documentary photographer Malaya Ellison acquires an antique lens from a rural estate sale, she begins capturing a woman who isn't physically present-standing behind her subjects in reflections, watching with patient attention.
As Malaya documents the phenomenon, the figure grows clearer. Closer. And Malaya's own reflection begins to disappear.
Her search leads to a forgotten millpond where artists have vanished for over a century, taken by a mechanism that does not kill its victims-but exchanges them. The trapped survive inside reflective space, waiting for someone capable of seeing them clearly enough to bring them back.
The woman Malaya sees has been waiting ninety-seven years.
As the boundary between observer and subject collapses, Malaya must decide whether to resist the exchange-or step willingly into the reflection and become the next witness in a chain that has endured for generations.
Refracted is a literary horror novel about identity, observation, and the cost of bringing the lost home.
For readers of Annihilation, The Silent Patient, and Never Let Me Go.
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