The Hour Between | Emmanuel Ricohermoso III | Fiction

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What would you do if someone you lost came back — but only for one hour, and not a single word could be spoken?

At St. Solace Hospice, life is supposed to end quietly. But on one strange morning, three deaths crack the stillness wide open — and with them, the impossible: The Quiet Return. An hour given back to the dead, to touch, to remember, to unmake the silence... or make peace with it.

Volunteer Maya Ren isn’t ready. She’s been trained to sit with dying patients, not returned ones. As former priest Father Emmanuel, murdered politician Jonas, and forgotten teacher Haru step back into a world they thought they had left, Maya faces questions bigger than grief — and choices bigger than herself.

Some will forgive. Some will haunt.

Some will simply hold your hand until the hour runs out.

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What if someone you lost could return—for just one hour?

The Hour Between is a quiet, powerful novel about love, grief, and the things we leave unsaid. In a world where the dead can return in perfect silence for sixty minutes, the living are given one last chance—to speak, to forgive, or to simply be present. Told through interconnected stories of nurses, families, and the returned, this book explores what it means to hold on, let go, and find peace in the space between.