Blood Memory

di Steven E Hall (Autore)

Steven Hall, 2026

.BLOOD MEMORY What if the past isn't just a story we tell, but a ghost waiting to move in? Elara Vance, a historian obsessed with the Salem witch trials, is offered a miracle: Sanguine Mnemonic Therapy, a revolutionary procedure that promises to let her experience the past through ancestral memory. Desperate to feel history rather than just study it, she pours her life's savings into the treatment. The donor sample is from "Subject Gamma," a direct descendant of a 1692 Salem magistrate. Elara expects echoes of candlelight and parchment. She gets the echo of a fanatic. First come the visions: the smell of burning hair, the chilling satisfaction of a crowd at a pyre. Then comes the voice—a grim, judgmental whisper in her mind that isn't her own. As the memories take root, they bring more than sensory data. They bring a will. A ruthless, Puritanical conviction that sees modern life as a cesspool of sin requiring a righteous purge. Elara fights to hold onto herself, but the entity calling itself Jeremiah Corwin is strong, logical, and horrifically certain. He uses her scholarly mind against her, reframing her empathy as weakness, her love for history as a blueprint for cleansing. He begins to work not just on her, but through her—compiling lists, grooming the disaffected, and drafting a modern manifesto for a new inquisition. As Elara's body and soul become the battleground for a 300-year-old ideology, her desperate friend Liam and a ruthless historian of cults, Dr. Anya Petrova, race to uncover the truth behind the procedure. They must fight not a monster, but a perfect, self-replicating idea of purity, one that is already escaping its original vessel and seeking new ones. Blood Memory is a chilling exploration of identity, the dangerous allure of absolute truth, and the ghosts we carry in our very cells.

• Autore: Steven E Hall
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Steven Hall
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232811570