Toward the Light
(2026)(The second book in the Through the Glass Darkly series)
A novel by Mila Lewis
What happens when anonymity fails—and exile offers no peace?
Four years ago, Korean actor Yoo-jin Lee vanished from public life after his world imploded: an obsessive fan tried to murder the woman he loved, and their unborn child was lost. The perpetrator was tried and imprisoned. The case closed. Or so he thought.
Now he has rebuilt his life in a small town at the farthest edge of France, where the land meets the Atlantic ocean in a collision of wind and water and stone. But when a relic from his past appears on his doorstep—followed by a surveillance photo, ominous messages, and a dead threat—he realizes that obsession has found him again. And this time, it knows where to strike.
There’s Claire Le Goff, his next-door neighbor, a French single mother carving out a new life after a tragedy.
And Sunny Kim, a Korean former academic who operates a crêpe restaurant in town and whose past is the one thing she can never outrun.
As the threats mount, it becomes clear that someone is watching them all—and that fame’s shadow never truly disappears.
Toward the Light is a taut psychological thriller about parasocial obsession, survivor’s guilt, and the brutal cost of second chances. It asks: What drives someone to worship—and what happens when devotion turns to destruction?
Genre: Mystery
Four years ago, Korean actor Yoo-jin Lee vanished from public life after his world imploded: an obsessive fan tried to murder the woman he loved, and their unborn child was lost. The perpetrator was tried and imprisoned. The case closed. Or so he thought.
Now he has rebuilt his life in a small town at the farthest edge of France, where the land meets the Atlantic ocean in a collision of wind and water and stone. But when a relic from his past appears on his doorstep—followed by a surveillance photo, ominous messages, and a dead threat—he realizes that obsession has found him again. And this time, it knows where to strike.
There’s Claire Le Goff, his next-door neighbor, a French single mother carving out a new life after a tragedy.
And Sunny Kim, a Korean former academic who operates a crêpe restaurant in town and whose past is the one thing she can never outrun.
As the threats mount, it becomes clear that someone is watching them all—and that fame’s shadow never truly disappears.
Toward the Light is a taut psychological thriller about parasocial obsession, survivor’s guilt, and the brutal cost of second chances. It asks: What drives someone to worship—and what happens when devotion turns to destruction?
Genre: Mystery
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