Part Two · A psychological thriller
Proof of Absence — Part Two: Borrowed Lives
The truth was only the beginning.
After Morrow's legacy archives are opened, Elias joins an independent review panel. A client's reconstruction contains his mother's unmistakable hands, although the woman on screen belongs to another family. Borrowed Lives follows the search for how one person's memories became someone else's past.
- Author
- Raktim Ranjit
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2026
- PDF length
- 381 pages
- Formats
Chapter One: The Wrong Mother
The woman in the reconstruction had Helen Venn's hands. Elias noticed before he noticed her face, which was fortunate because the face belonged to someone else.
The hands were his mother's. Not similar hands. Not merely long fingers and square nails. Helen had broken the little finger of her left hand at eleven and never had it set properly.
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About the author
Raktim Ranjit writes fiction and builds software. His engineering articles are on the Blog.