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The Lantern Market Beyond Midnight

The Lantern Market Beyond Midnight

Marsh, Brent

Paperback

FantasyRomance

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ISBN13: 9798182769501
Publisher: Brent Marsh
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the quiet hours after midnight, a mysterious lantern market appears in the oldest quarter of a forgotten city. By dawn, the market is gone, leaving behind only cold ashes, empty stalls, and memories that no longer belong to the people who bought its strange wares.Mara Vey has spent years searching for her missing younger brother, Elias, who disappeared on the night of the city's annual winter festival. Everyone insists that Elias died that night. Mara has never believed them. Then, years later, she discovers an old brass lantern bearing her brother's initials and a handwritten message telling her to return to the market after midnight.When the bells strike twelve, Mara finds a hidden marketplace beneath the city's abandoned railway station. Its merchants sell impossible things: forgotten names, memories of dead relatives, unfinished dreams, years of life, and objects that should have vanished decades ago. The market has one rule-nothing is free.Mara soon learns that every customer leaves something behind. Some surrender a childhood memory. Others trade away their grief, their identity, or the memory of someone they once loved. The more deeply Mara explores the market, the more she realizes that Elias did not simply disappear. He made a bargain.The mysterious Lantern Keeper tells Mara that her brother exchanged his future to save her life on the night he vanished. Now the debt has come due, and the market wants the final payment: Mara herself.As midnight approaches again, Mara must choose between restoring the life she lost and accepting the painful truth about her brother's sacrifice. But the greatest secret is yet to be uncovered. The market does not merely trade in memories-it survives by collecting the emotional lives of those who enter it.To escape, Mara must give up the one memory the market cannot resist: the last true memory she has of Elias.And when the final lantern goes dark, she must decide whether remembering someone is worth the pain of losing them all over again.

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