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The Silence After Mercy
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if Death had a son... and he refused to reap?
Robin was born into inevitability.
His father is Death - patient, precise, unyielding. For centuries, Robin stood at his side, witnessing the quiet architecture of endings. But when he refuses to take a single life he believes is not ready, the balance of the world fractures.
Exiled to the land of the living, Robin discovers something astonishing: while Death moves between realms on the wings of crows and ravens, robins too can cross the boundary. And robins do not herald endings.
They herald warning.
Determined to defy the cold geometry of fate, Robin begins intervening - holding back accidents, delaying final breaths, widening the space between life and death. But mercy has consequences. Threads that refuse to close strain the weave of the world. Time begins to falter. The sky itself cracks.
At the heart of the unraveling stands Elena - a woman whose life is more deeply woven into the fabric of existence than either of them understand. To save her would mean tearing the world apart. To let her go would mean learning what love truly costs.
As riverbanks collapse and realms threaten to rupture, Robin must choose:
Defy Death again...
Or stand at the edge of ending and finally understand it.
Epic, lyrical, and mythic in scope, The Silence After Mercy is a story of rebellion and restraint, of love that does not conquer death-but learns how to stand beside it.
In the space between endings, something new is born.
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