Sign-In
Cart
Refracted
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2025
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When documentary photographer Malaya Ellison acquires an antique lens from a rural estate sale, she begins capturing a woman who isn't physically present-standing behind her subjects in reflections, watching with patient attention.
As Malaya documents the phenomenon, the figure grows clearer. Closer. And Malaya's own reflection begins to disappear.
Her search leads to a forgotten millpond where artists have vanished for over a century, taken by a mechanism that does not kill its victims-but exchanges them. The trapped survive inside reflective space, waiting for someone capable of seeing them clearly enough to bring them back.
The woman Malaya sees has been waiting ninety-seven years.
As the boundary between observer and subject collapses, Malaya must decide whether to resist the exchange-or step willingly into the reflection and become the next witness in a chain that has endured for generations.
Refracted is a literary horror novel about identity, observation, and the cost of bringing the lost home.
For readers of Annihilation, The Silent Patient, and Never Let Me Go.
Also from
Wertz, Amy
Alutophobia: Cleanliness Is Not Innocent, Some Things Should Never be Washed Away
Wertz, Amy
Paperback
Learning Through Play at School: It emphasizes the focus on play-based learning in educational settings.
Wertz, Amy
Paperback
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972 (Loa #158): When She Was Good / Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Agee, Joel
Musil, Robert
Paperback