Masks Between Two Hearts

<p><strong>A love story born in isolation. A vanishing act written in ice.</strong></p><p>During the pandemic's deepest isolation two fractured souls find each other in the blue glow of their screens: Liam an American anthropologist haunted by the moral wreckage of his work in Iraq and Anja a Swedish spiritual therapist offering ancient Sámi songs as balm for the soul.</p><p>Their connection is intense intellectual and feels like salvation. Eager for a new life Liam journeys to her remote Arctic cabin a place of breathtaking beauty and profound silence.</p><p>But the pristine wilderness holds mirrors not answers. Anja's serene healing masks a history of fierce desperate violence. Liam's clinical detachment hides a capacity for calculated harm. As their digital fantasies collide with freezing reality they are drawn into a dangerous intimate pact a ritual that promises to purge their pasts but demands a terrifying price.</p><p><strong>What happens when the only person who truly sees you sees the monster you've tried to bury?</strong></p><p>A hauntingly original thriller that is both a page-turning mystery and a profound meditation on trauma identity and the terrifying vulnerability of connection in the digital age.</p>