NECTAR - Sounds of Soft Things Breaking: A Literary Fiction Journey Through Memory, Mystery, Trauma, and the Dark Secrets of Intimacy That Bind Us

When 22-year-old Ayla wakes up in St. Luke’s Hospital in Thessaloniki after a devastating car accident, her body is broken, her mind in fragments, and her past erased. The doctors say she should be dead. Her parents say someone named Selen was with her. The police say there’s an ongoing investigation. But Ayla remembers none of it.

There is no body. No explanation. Only silence, secrets, and a name that refuses to settle into meaning.

As Ayla struggles through pain, trauma, and memory loss, she begins to ask questions no one wants answered. What really happened the night of the accident? And who, exactly, is Selen? The police hover around Ayla, asking questions she can’t answer, but no one tells her what they know.

Then there’s Pappi, a man she meets at the hospital, and who stays out of things that aren’t his business. Desperate to find the truth, Ayla ropes him into the search.

NECTAR: Sounds of Soft Things Breaking is a literary fiction masterpiece that blends intense emotional depth with the dark allure of mystery.

"A shimmering, totally-exciting novel of memory and mystery, Nectar grips like a ghostly hand, breaks your heart, then whispers secrets you’ll remember long after. Highly recommended," The International Review of Books.