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One Life - A Thousand Souls
Twelfth Century Italy. In the fishing village of Lavagna, Guzco Domar, a disgraced angel and soul collector is consumed by guilt after collecting the soul of a young mother. Vulnerable, he falls under the sway of a cunning horse trader, Massander, who tricks Guzco into gambling away his wings. Betrayed and left for dead, Guzco clings to one purpose: to travel to the remote alpine village of Badur to collect the next soul.
He arrives too late. Badur is razed, its people massacred. With no path back to forgiveness, Guzco remains committed to duty, taking on the lives and identities of those whose souls he collects, century after century. Time grinds on, harsh winters, brutal wars, fleeting infatuations. Among strangers and in solitude, Guzco becomes both witness and participant in a world he no longer belongs to.
Over the years, whispers emerge of a fallen angel skinned by the Devil. The tale grows into legend threaded with love, betrayal, greed, envy and ultimately, hope. A legend resilient enough to outlive the Crusades, the Black Death, and both World Wars. But Guzco watches, hidden in plain sight, still waiting and hoping for redemption.
Drawn by the allure of the legend, two women, each seeking to reclaim their own fate, journey to the valley. Neither knows the truth behind the myth and unknowingly trust their destinies to Guzco.
One Life - A Thousand Souls is a powerful tale of resilience and redemption, a mediation on what it means to be human. Though flawed and doubt-filled, Guzco reminds us that even the lost can become extraordinary and that kindness and compassion are the truest form of grace.
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The Steam Catcher
Gloucester, 1915. Haunted by his father's madness, Tom Casey flees home after being falsely accused of murder. He survives the First World War and the Irish War for Independence. But survival demands a heavy price. The loss of his beloved family and everything he was raised to believe in.
Now an amoral drifter caught up in the violent, seedy underworld of 1920s Europe, Tom falls under the spell of Matilde, a brilliant, beautiful bank robber. To find love, hope and a sense of belonging, he must run again, fight and even kill.
The Steam Catcher draws on the proud, often overlooked history of the Irish community in Britain to examine how class and identity shapes and fractures our lives.
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