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The Stain on Her Light
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 652
Weight: 1.89
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Marie was Christoph's wife, his first and only love, the mother of his children - the woman who survived a childhood no child should have survived. To him she was the light his whole life arranged itself around.
Then he hurts her.
Not with an affair. Not with another woman. With a private mistake that looks smaller from the outside than it was to her, and that lands exactly where she had trusted him most deeply.
Marie still loves him.
And that is what becomes unbearable.
When, after years of illness and pain, she begins to shine again, Christoph does not only see her happiness. He sees the wound he caused. And slowly, guilt teaches his love one dangerous thought:
Maybe she would be happier without him.
He believes he is giving her freedom.
She will understand that he has taken her home.
The Stain on Her Light is a literary psychological tragedy about a long marriage, about shame that cannot be spoken aloud, and about how love becomes dangerous when pain is carried alone. Told in short, tense chapters - mostly from his side before the rupture, and hers after it.
Content note: this novel deals with trauma, grief and self-destructive thinking.
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