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The Weight of Broken Hands
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 29 2025
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the quiet isolation of a rural farmhouse, love and terror live under the same roof.
Nora Harper wants nothing more than to protect her son, Elias. To the outside world, he is a pale, fragile boy with innocent blue eyes. But Nora knows the truth-Elias's touch is heavy enough to break bones, his embraces too fierce to survive. What began as small accidents-fractured plates, bruises on her arms-has grown into something darker. Animals die in his hands. Furniture splinters beneath his weight. And the whispers in the village are turning into threats.
When Samuel, the young man from next door, steps into their lives, he sees what Nora fears: Elias cannot control the storm inside him. Yet Samuel carries his own scars and secrets, recognizing in the boy a reflection of the rage he has buried all his life. Caught between loyalty to Nora and his own haunted past, Samuel must decide whether he is Elias's savior-or the one who will finally betray him.
The villagers are watching. The house itself seems to whisper. And every day, Elias grows stronger.
The Weight of Broken Hands is a chilling, atmospheric psychological horror that explores the fragile borders between love and violence, innocence and monstrosity, family and betrayal. With echoes of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King, Viktoryia Konan delivers a story that is as heartbreaking as it is terrifying.
This is not a tale of monsters hiding in the woods-it is the story of a child who might be the monster, and of the mother who refuses to let him go. But when love itself becomes dangerous, how far will a parent go to protect their child? And how far will others go to stop him?
Enter a world where the bond between mother and son is tested by fear, where loyalty is sharpened into a weapon, and where survival may demand the most devastating sacrifice of all.
Fans of gothic suspense, supernatural dread, and deeply human horror will find themselves gripped by this novel until the final page.
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