Half a Heart in the Open

About this book

"No one returns as he was after seeing the face of truth; for the light we thought was salvation may be blinder than darkness itself." Between cold silent walls like bone, and corridors groaning with the echo of the wanderers' breaths, Layan awakens to find herself a mere number in the records of a terrifying experiment: "Case Seventeen." Layan was not the only one who lost her name; there is also Adam and Merk and others, souls stripped of their humanity and cast into a struggle beyond the limits of the mind, where the beats of strange hearts intermingle with the pulses of the laboratory's walls, and the true enemy becomes not that masked man, but the shadow dwelling the depths. This work takes us on a literary journey steeped in mystery and inspiration, where the earth splits open with beasts not necessarily alien to us, and where the netherworlds and ancient shadows awaken to reshape the concept of existence. "Half a Heart in the Open" is no mere novel about good and evil, but a sharp stand before the mirror reflecting our worst nightmares, and a posing of existential questions.