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The Vesica
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2025
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A physician chasing immortality. Two boys who should never have lived. A city ready to devour miracles.
In fog-draped Victorian London, the reclusive Dr. Harrow conducts a forbidden experiment that delivers a living wonder-and an ethical nightmare: thoracopagus conjoined twins, bound heart-to-heart. Hidden in the cellar of his crumbling townhouse, the boys learn the painful choreography of survival-breathing, eating, standing-while Harrow records rapturous notes, convinced his creation has beaten death itself.
But minds divide where bodies cannot. One twin is gentle and curious; the other volatile and mistrustful. Harrow's quiet favouritism opens a rift no scalpel can mend. A midnight outing through Whitechapel turns the miracle into rumour, rumour into hysteria. His assistant, Elias Finch, buckles under the weight of secrecy; a determined colleague, Dr. Samuel Bryce, begins to ask the wrong questions. And when the twins finally see themselves-truly see themselves-the fragile world Harrow built begins to crack.
Told with the chill of a Victorian casebook and the pulse of a gothic thriller, The Vesica explores identity, possession, and the price of playing god. As confessions surface and loyalties splinter, the twins must decide who they are-and Harrow must face what he's made.
Perfect for readers of Frankenstein, The Doll Factory, and The Silent Companions, this haunting novel lingers like candle smoke and won't let you look away.
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