The Unseen Face (Paperback)

After receiving an anonymous letter two weeks earlier, unpleasant ghosts from the past began to reemerge to the surface. Every night for the last couple of weeks, James has been experiencing a reoccurring nightmare about Emilia, and he felt like Emilia was trying to tell him something. Those nightmares were born from the depths of his soul, coming to him silently and unguarded to unlock the ugliness he had not realized inside. Despite this, his soul still whispered a hope that the answer to those dreams promised him the chance of a full recovery from his haunting sleep. Doctor Jonathan kept assuring him that dreams were a connection to human subconscious; successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind, during certain stages of sleep. The doctor believed that each picture James had seen in the dream was a form of unspoken emotion about Emilia. Like Jonathan, Richard also agreed that James was suffering from a compassion fatigue syndrome caused by the loss of Emilia who died a few years ago due to an infection of her brain tissue. On the other hand, Jennifer believed that Emilia was trying to communicate with James in the dreams. Then, one day Jennifer asked James to visit Emilia's tomb. That invitation led them to another visit; to meet Emilia's parents. And that was where the truth began to unravel. Starting from Emilia's mother testimony that her daughter was killed, James encounters confusion after confusion. He goes to Iredell County Jail to meet face to face with the murderer, Adam Jackson. Confusion ensues further when he obtains some facts from the police, including the crime scene report and the testimony from a number of witnesses. Emilia was indeed killed in cold blood. Now every memory James has ever had about Emilia is torn apart and turns out to be a pack of horrible lies. His belief of pursuing self-purification was his only devil to beat. But now James finally realizes that he is not the person he thought he was.