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LACUNA: Chimera Part One
You can abandon your past…
but your secrets won’t abandon you.As a tattooist, it’s easy keeping people at arm’s length. Distract them with questions, and when they inevitably ask their own, reply vaguely. Lie. When the lies pile up, disappear.
It’s a cycle Lynna’s all too familiar with. Staying guarded is a necessity, but what keeps her safe is also what keeps her lonely. It’s an empty existence, hiding behind lies, and she wishes she was someone else. Someone not burdened with a secret.
A year into her most recent move, the loneliness bleeds into her work, and she admits a few truths. At the insistence of a client, she explores the city’s night scene, where she meets the enigmatic Rhys. As the months progress, so do her feelings for him, despite the risks of getting too close. When a dangerous encounter leads her straight into his arms, she abandons her past in exchange for a new beginning, only her secret refuses to be abandoned. With her life hanging by a thread, she’s forced to confess, but the secret that will change everything isn’t hers.
Set in an alternate present, LACUNA opens with Lynna’s transition to an atmospheric northwestern city. Derailed from what she’s built, she finds herself immersed in the lush world of medicinal horticulture, enveloped in the kind of close-knit relationships she always craved. Her fantasy has become reality, but not without caveat. As she plunges further into this new life, she begins to expose the conflicting threads holding it together, and what she discovers will bring more questions than answers.
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but your secrets won’t abandon you.As a tattooist, it’s easy keeping people at arm’s length. Distract them with questions, and when they inevitably ask their own, reply vaguely. Lie. When the lies pile up, disappear.
It’s a cycle Lynna’s all too familiar with. Staying guarded is a necessity, but what keeps her safe is also what keeps her lonely. It’s an empty existence, hiding behind lies, and she wishes she was someone else. Someone not burdened with a secret.
A year into her most recent move, the loneliness bleeds into her work, and she admits a few truths. At the insistence of a client, she explores the city’s night scene, where she meets the enigmatic Rhys. As the months progress, so do her feelings for him, despite the risks of getting too close. When a dangerous encounter leads her straight into his arms, she abandons her past in exchange for a new beginning, only her secret refuses to be abandoned. With her life hanging by a thread, she’s forced to confess, but the secret that will change everything isn’t hers.
Set in an alternate present, LACUNA opens with Lynna’s transition to an atmospheric northwestern city. Derailed from what she’s built, she finds herself immersed in the lush world of medicinal horticulture, enveloped in the kind of close-knit relationships she always craved. Her fantasy has become reality, but not without caveat. As she plunges further into this new life, she begins to expose the conflicting threads holding it together, and what she discovers will bring more questions than answers.
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411 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 5, 2024
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Erin Hosfield
2 books6 followersI’ve been an artist since I was able to hold a brush, and collected my BA in Fine Art from California University with the intent of becoming a painter. After falling in love with tattooing, I decided to chase that dream, and made it a reality in 2006.
Outside my day job (that is very much a dream job) I like to overextend myself by means of a variety of time consuming endeavors. I’m an amateur herbalist, candlemaker, miniaturist, playlist curator, landscape painter, video game enthusiast, and most recently—novelist. I can be found engaging in these pursuits at my home in the South Side of Pittsburgh, which I share with my partner and our fuzzy companions.
Outside my day job (that is very much a dream job) I like to overextend myself by means of a variety of time consuming endeavors. I’m an amateur herbalist, candlemaker, miniaturist, playlist curator, landscape painter, video game enthusiast, and most recently—novelist. I can be found engaging in these pursuits at my home in the South Side of Pittsburgh, which I share with my partner and our fuzzy companions.
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June 7, 2024
An evocative debut that rewards the time you spend with its characters and the atmospheric spaces they occupy. There's conflict, yes, and there are elements of the supernatural, but the book isn't really about either of them. Instead, it's a story of found family and rebuilding your life--not only when you have to, but also when you choose to.
April 24, 2024
Erin Hosfield is an extremely talented writer who just knocked it out of the park with her debut novel.
Lacuna: Chimera Part One is a great story that kept me turning the pages. I already can’t wait for Part 2.
Lacuna: Chimera Part One is a great story that kept me turning the pages. I already can’t wait for Part 2.
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