Shadows of the Future

By Dragos Gasser

When Matei S ntineanu guides Prince Carol through the shadows of Europe toward the throne of Romania, he sets in motion the first cog of a mechanism that will span an entire century.

His son, Ștefan - an old-world aristocrat and guardian of the secrets that shape destinies - inherits more than a name: a silent duty.

Belonging to a world on the verge of extinction, he steps into another he must understand without controlling, adjusting from the shadows the fate of a country where regimes rise and fall like waves. From the elegance of the Belle poque to the concrete night of communism - and through the paranoia of the Ceaușescu era, where even shadows have shadows - Ștefan learns that seeing the future does not mean being able to change it.

The S ntineanu family does not wear crowns and does not sign treaties. They possess something far more dangerous: sight. An atavistic gift - or a curse - passed from father to son, through which they glimpse the shadows of the future cast upon the present.

When the secrets of blood become more lethal than history itself, Ștefan must choose: perpetuate the order his ancestors guarded, or shatter it to save what little humanity remains in him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSMYLS2N
• ISBN13: 9798252112978
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"