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Where the City Learned to Rest
Paperback
Publisher: Selena
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a city built on buried names and broken prayers, the dead refuse to be silent.
When a sorcerer breaks ancient boundaries to bring back his beloved, the city awakens to something it was never meant to remember. Bells toll beneath the streets. Graves whisper Rivers flow with forgotten faces. The dead return-not as monsters, but as memories demanding recognition.
As the Church's lies are exposed, and centuries of resurrected souls make their way into the present, the sorcerer and his lover are forced to confront a bitter truth: love can open doors that should never be left unguarded. Some of the dead yearn to return. Others beg to be forgotten. And between them stands a city that must learn the difference.
Haunted by Gothic ruins, ink-stained rituals, and a love that exists between life and death, Where the City Learned to Rest is a dark fantasy novel about grief, memory, and the price of refusing to give up. It is a story where summoning spirits is not a power, but a listening act-and where love does not triumph over death, but teaches it mercy.
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