Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
19.04.2026
Verlag
AeressaSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
226 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798235263833
"You look" she starts. Stops. Her voice carries three additional decades in it now, and her eyes are bright in the way that eyes go bright before they do something else. And then: "You found a night shift."
For eight hundred years, Evangeline Voss has perfected the art of disappearing in plain sight. She works the graveyard shift at a Brooklyn 7-Eleven, serves coffee to insomniacs, replaces the hot dogs at 4am, and keeps her employee-of-the-month plaque face-down in her locker. She does not invite questions. She does not form attachments. She does not explain the decades of obituaries she has quietly outlived, or why her handwriting matches letters in eighteenth-century archives.
Then Priya Anand arrives on a WednesdayPhD student, chronic reorganizer of protein bar sections, constitutionally incapable of leaving a question unanswered. She has a notebook with soft, compacted pages from being carried everywhere, a pen she keeps in her bun, and the specific quality of attention that makes Evangeline feel, for the first time in centuries, genuinely observed.
What begins as a slow collision of silences grows across a decade, then two, then three: phone calls in the 3am quiet, voice notes sent across oceans, postcards carried in apron pockets long after the shifts that earned them. Priya builds a career studying the invisible labor of the night shift, and slowly, with the patient precision of an excellent researcher, she builds a case for something else entirely. Evangeline watches. Files things she has no clean name for. Calls it something other than what it is.
Night Shift is a love story told in fluorescent light and long yearsabout a vampire who has spent three centuries surviving loss by never quite arriving, and the woman who decides that knowing what she is changes nothing about what she feels. It asks what it means to love someone across asymmetrical time, and whether stayingreally stayingmight be the bravest thing either of them has ever done.
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