In a remote village governed by stone, silence, and obedience, Liliane lives barefoot and unafraid, loving a man whose gentleness hides something older than faith. Their life is small, deliberate, and fiercely human, until it is seen.

Accused without evidence and condemned without trial, Liliane is taken by a system that mistakes control for holiness. What follows is not a battle between good and evil, but a collision between love and authority, mercy and ritual, memory and fire.

Rain Without Mercy is a standalone tragic novella of literary fiction and mythic realism, written with lyrical restraint and physical immediacy. Set in a world shaped by tradition, belief, and unspoken power, it explores how devotion becomes cruelty, and how refusal can echo far beyond a single life.

This is not a story about salvation.

It is a story about love under persecution, quiet rebellion, and the irreversible cost of being seen.

For readers of lyrical literary fiction, mythic and historical fiction, and tragic love stories that linger long after the final page.

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