The Half That Departed

By shak w yaqen

What if the soul is greater than the body? What if it can exist in two places at the same time? What if there is someone on the other side of the world who laughs when you laugh, cries when you cry, and burns when you burn?Lia Morgan, a fast-paced graphic designer from New York, suddenly wakes up one night laughing. But the laugh is not hers. It is warm, spontaneous, and undeniably Saudi.Three thousand miles away, Lin Al-Otaibi, a shy artist from Riyadh, bursts into the same laugh at the exact same moment. The same burn. The same fall. The same pain.They have never met. But they share one soul.When Lia travels to Riyadh to find the stranger inside her head, she discovers that Lin is not just a hallucination. She is her mirror. Her other half. The half that departed.But some truths are too big to accept. And some love stories are too strange to survive.Or are they?A soul-stirring novel about parallel lives, invisible connections, and the love that transcends distance, culture, and even death itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H33726PN
• ISBN13: 9798233498626
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Shak W Yaqen
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"