Title:
HOGAN: A Monstrous Faith
Status:
Novel in progress
Synopsis:
Kentown, December 1987.
As Christmas approaches, the city retreats into its certainties and respected institutions. Among them, the Catholic orphanage Angel Wings stands as a symbol of moral order and protection.
At that time, Robert Hogan is still far from the end of his career. He has no official reason to take interest in the orphanage. Yet a series of minor details — a child’s words, behaviors learned too early, a lingering silence — begins to draw his attention.
Hogan observes. Listens. Assembles without haste. What once seemed irreproachable slowly starts to fracture. Refusing both easy assumptions and rushed accusations, he follows a discreet path where every choice carries weight.
HOGAN: A Monstrous Faith explores one of the investigations that shaped Hogan’s method and outlook, long before the events of Hymn of Irony.
A story in which truth does not impose itself — it allows itself to be approached, slowly.
Title:
THE SHUTTERED VALLEY
Status:
Novel in development
Synopsis:
Twin Rivers Valley has always lived between two waters, two villages, and one old castle watching over them from the hill.
On one side stands Lornay, quiet, administrative, apparently stable. On the other lies Drevan, a village burdened by harsher tempers, broken families, old grudges, and incidents too frequent to be dismissed as coincidence.
At the center of the valley, Equinox Castle has been turned into a hotel by its heirs. Guests come for the view, the silence, and the beauty of the place. Yet some leave with memories of sleepless nights, sudden arguments, strange pressure in the air, and a discomfort no one can properly name.
When an acoustician from Lumenton is called to investigate unexplained vibrations inside the castle, he expects old stones, bad insulation, hidden resonance, or a structural defect. But his rare sensitivity to low frequencies reveals something his instruments can only partially measure.
The valley is not divided by superstition.
It is divided by something real.
As he maps the disturbances, the incidents begin to align: the right wing of the castle, the Pollux River, the Violet Forest, Drevan, and the abandoned Rookwell House — a place deserted after a family tragedy that still stains the memory of the valley.
THE SHUTTERED VALLEY is a mystery thriller about perception, corruption, and the fragile distance between a dark thought and an irreversible act.
The valley does not create evil.
It opens the door.
