The Orchard of Quiet Faces

De: Locke Halden

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

There are stories towns try to forget. Harrow Falls keeps growing them.

High-school English teacher Lena Halloran has spent her life trying to disappear - quiet classrooms, small apartments, and smaller dreams. But everything changes the day she hears a rumor whispered by one of her students:

There’s an orchard outside town where masks grow on trees.
And sometimes the masks look back.

Curiosity leads Lena down a dirt road to the Brann orchard - an ancient place pulsing with strange life. Hanging from its branches are carved faces, each one warm to the touch, each one shaped like someone’s deepest longing. When the orchard grows a mask of Lena’s own face, her world begins to unravel.

What begins as transformation quickly becomes obsession. The mask promises confidence, beauty, power. But every gift has a price—and the orchard is hungry for more than Lena understands.

As her identity fractures, a perfect copy of herself emerges from the trees.
A better Lena.
A replacement.

To survive, Lena must confront the orchard’s centuries-old hunger, the families who have fed it, and the versions of herself she never wished to see. But the greatest danger may not be the orchard’s masks...
it may be the face she’s becoming.

The Orchard of Quiet Faces is a haunting, beautifully written psychological horror novel about identity, transformation, and the terrifying freedom of becoming someone new. Fans of Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia will find themselves spellbound by this atmospheric descent into the roots of human longing.