Where the Lost One Went
About this audiobook
Somewhere beyond death, something is learning the voices of the people we love most.
Lyrakles Oran designed the Vale of Names as a place where memory could endure without imprisoning the living. But after his daughter Liora dies, an impossible white flower grows through her name-stone—and he hears the sound of her laughter coming from beyond the sealed gate.
Following her voice into the Hidden Garden, Lyrakles encounters a child beside a well, a vanished key, and a warning he does not yet understand: “Do not answer with what you love.”
Something beneath the Garden has been waiting. It knows his grief. It knows his memories. And now it is learning to speak in his daughter’s voice.
To find the truth, Lyrakles must confront the room he sealed, the wife he shut outside his sorrow, and the terrible possibility that grief can mistake return for mercy. Because love can become a lock—and grief can teach monsters how to speak.
Where the Lost One Went is Book II of The Worlds That Remember, following The Flame Beyond Time. A mythic story of grief, memory, faith, freedom, and the mystery of love that survives every ending, it may also be read as a complete story on its own.
Nothing planted here is lost. But everything planted here must grow.
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About the author
William G. Boundroukas is an Illinois attorney and author whose work explores responsibility, faith, family, memory, endurance, and the quiet obligations people carry when life does not offer easy answers.
After more than three decades practicing law, Boundroukas began publishing fiction, poetry, and practical nonfiction drawn from the worlds he knows best: professional responsibility, family life, caregiving, loss, faith, and the experience of continuing when stopping is not an option.
His books include literary and Christian fiction, the speculative series The Worlds That Remember, the Still Functioning books, and poetry collections including Still Standing and By What It Does. Though his books move across different genres, they return to a common question: what does it mean to remain present, responsible, and loving when circumstances cannot simply be fixed?
Boundroukas lives and works in the Chicago area. His writing is shaped by his Greek-American background, Orthodox Christian faith, legal career, and life as a husband and father.
He writes not primarily to provide answers, but to recognize the people who continue to carry, witness, love, and stay.
