The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something—or someone—else?
November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
As shells rain down on Flanders and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging—or better left behind entirely.
- File Name:the-warm-hands-of-ghosts-by-katherine-arden.epub
- Original Title:The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- Creator:Katherine Arden
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:9780593128268
- Publisher:Random House Worlds
- Date:2024-02-13
- File Size:7.738 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Title Page
- 3. Copyright
- 4. Contents
- 5. Epigraph
- 6. Map
- 7. Chapter 1: The Beast from the Sea
- 8. Chapter 2: This Fair Defect of Nature
- 9. Chapter 3: Day of Wrath
- 10. Chapter 4: The Bottomless Pit
- 11. Chapter 5: The Voice of the Seventh Angel
- 12. Chapter 6: My Kingdom Full of Darkness
- 13. Chapter 7: It Had Two Horns Like a Lamb but Spoke Like a Dragon
- 14. Chapter 8: The Key of the Bottomless Pit
- 15. Chapter 9: The Dead, Small and Great
- 16. Chapter 10: Shaken of a Mighty Wind
- 17. Chapter 11: Restraint She Will Not Brook
- 18. Chapter 12: This Is the First Resurrection
- 19. Chapter 13: Away into the Wilderness
- 20. Chapter 14: And Fountains of Waters, and They Became Blood
- 21. Chapter 15: The Paradise of Fools
- 22. Chapter 16: A Rider, on a Red Horse
- 23. Chapter 17: The Womb of Nature and Perhaps Her Grave
- 24. Chapter 18: And Many Men Died of the Waters
- 25. Chapter 19: And the Stars of Heaven Fell to Earth
- 26. Chapter 20: Which Way I Fly Is Hell
- 27. Chapter 21: The Wine of the Wrath of God
- 28. Chapter 22: And the Heaven Departed
- 29. Chapter 23: And His Kingdom Was Full of Darkness
- 30. Chapter 24: Now Is Come Salvation
- 31. Chapter 25: And in Those Days Shall Men Seek Death
- 32. Chapter 26: And His Deadly Wound Was Healed
- 33. Chapter 27: The Mind Is Its Own Place
- 34. Chapter 28: And Lo a Black Horse
- 35. Chapter 29: A Slow and Silent Stream
- 36. Chapter 30: And to the Woman Were Given Two Wings
- 37. Chapter 31: The Lost Archangel
- 38. Chapter 32: And I Saw the Holy City
- 39. Chapter 33: Dream Not of Other Worlds
- 40. Chapter 34: To Lose Thee Were to Lose Myself
- 41. Chapter 35: What Hath Night to Do with Sleep?
- 42. Chapter 36: Pandemonium
- 43. Chapter 37: And I Saw a New Heaven, and a New Earth
- 44. Chapter 38: The Fruit of That Forbidden Tree
- 45. Chapter 39: Into This Wild Abyss
- 46. Chapter 40: How Can I Live Without Thee?
- 47. Chapter 41: The Unconquerable Will and Study of Revenge
- 48. Chapter 42: Our Torments May Become Our Elements
- 49. Chapter 43: Through Eden Took Their Solitary Way
- 50. Chapter 44: But the Rest of the Dead Lived Not Again
- 51. Author’s Note
- 52. Dedication
- 53. Acknowledgments
- 54. Other Titles
- 55. About the Author
Katherine Arden
