The Doll Maker's Bride: Echos in Porcelain Skin

By Zovinia Thorne

Deep in the uncharted wilds of the Florida Everglades, where the waters run dark and the cypress trees whisper secrets to the wind, Ambrose LeClaire waits. A master dollmaker, a ghost among men--no one knows he exists. The authorities cannot track him, the government cannot find him. His victims? Vanished. Gone without a trace. Born and raised in the depths of the Louisiana Bayous, Ambrose learned the ways of the wild early--a skilled hunter, and a master survivalist. But his true craft lay not in the taking of life, but in preserving it. In sculpting beauty from the bones of the lost. When the bodies stopped surfacing, he moved on, slipping into the shadows of the Everglades, chasing a whisper. The whisper of her. The woman he lost. The face he could never recreate, no matter how many delicate hands he shaped from porcelain, no matter how many perfect lips he painted in the flickering candlelight. He searched city to city, town to town, but she always eluded him--until now. Because now, he has found her reflection in another. A young woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the love that once consumed him. And this time, he will not lose her. As admiration decays into obsession, as devotion twists into something far darker, Ambrose begins his masterpiece--one final creation to capture the perfection that has always slipped through his fingers. But love, in his world, is something to be crafted, preserved... controlled. And if she will not stay willingly, he will make sure she stays forever. Because in his hands, beauty never fades. In his hands, love never dies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5Q62T3M
• ISBN13: 9798280663268
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"