UTA

At the pinnacle of her career, silent movie star, Uta Blau vanished from the public. Thought dead in the fire, along with the last known negative of Night of the Soul, Uta was destined to be another strange footnote in cinematic history

But now, a century later, the film has been found, and so has Uta. A woman who cannot and should not exist. A woman who gave her soul to the night. A woman, desperate to live again.

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Paul John Lyon's passion for fiction began at the age of ten when his grandfather gave him a box of well-thumbed paperbacks. Between the yellowed pages of those books he discovered tales of detectives and criminals, spies and lovers, grand victories and grander defeats. More importantly, in that box were the seeds of a love affair that has lasted a lifetime.

A few years later he was gifted a typewriter and began writing. He hasn't stopped since.

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