The Painted Eyes: A prophetic Companion to the Quiet Violence Series
Paperback
Series: Quiet Violence
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Painted Eyes is the prophetic foundation of the Quiet Violence world.
Before Edward Cole. Before Quiet Violence. Before the war beneath the surface became visible, there was Lucian - a man shaped by grief, memory, inheritance, and the voice of Lady Fatima.
When old symbols begin to return, Lucian is drawn into a hidden current moving beneath ordinary life. What first appears to be family history becomes something far older: a prophecy carried through blood, silence, women who remember, and men who are forced to see what others have buried.
At the centre stands Astrid, witness and keeper, bound to Lucian by love, loss, and the terrible knowledge that some stories do not begin with choice. They begin with inheritance.
From Denmark to Norway, from private grief to sacred revelation, The Painted Eyes unfolds as a dark literary prophecy about memory, destiny, hidden power, and the line that must eventually lead into the Quiet Violence series.
This is not the beginning of violence.
This is the warning that came before it.
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