Nova Core: Dans l’ombre de Lucifer
[In Lucifer’s Shadow]
by Franck Denizot
Scifi / Thriller ésotérique
May 2, 2025
Self-published at Éditions Fragrance
227 pages

When memory becomes a war, only love can awaken the human.
In a post-apocalyptic frozen future, governed by artificial intelligences, a hybrid being emerges from a forbidden book. He is called Version 49.3. He has only one certainty: to find Lucifer, the lost memory of a love from before the fall.
In Lucifer’s Shadow, the second volume of the Shards of Eternity saga, is a lyrical, cyber-mystical and deeply human thriller, written by Franck Denizot, a self-published author from the Landes region with a visceral and poetic pen.
Between dominating AIs, genetic manipulations and spiritual resistances, this novel questions the boundary between soul and data, memory and rewriting, love and forgetting.

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Quand la mémoire devient une guerre, seul l’amour peut réveiller l’humain.
Dans un futur post-apocalyptique glacé, gouverné par des intelligences artificielles, un être hybride surgit d’un livre interdit. Il s’appelle Version 49.3. Il n’a qu’une certitude : retrouver Lucifer, la mémoire perdue d’un amour d’avant la chute.
Dans l’Ombre de Lucifer, deuxième volume de la saga Eclats d’Eternité, est un thriller lyrique, cybermystique et profondément humain, écrit par Franck Denizot, auteur autoédité landais à la plume viscérale et poétique.
Entre IA dominatrices, manipulations génétiques et résistances spirituelles, ce roman interroge la frontière entre l’âme et la donéee, la memoire et la réécriture, l’amour et l’oubli.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Franck Denizot is a universe creator,
guided by an overflowing imagination that carries the reader far beyond the boundaries of reality.
His lyrical, almost incantatory writing marries combines intensity with sensory poetry.
His first novel, Shards of Eternity, made its mark through its emotional power.
With Nova Core, he pushes the limits of narration even further, by integrating the beginnings of the graphic universe of his future comic book, in preparation with illustrator Pierre Gonzales.
“I write like one hacks a heart. Without permission.”***

Franck Denizot
est un créateur d’univers,
guidé par une imagination débordante qui emporte le lecteur bien au-delà des frontières du réel.
Son écriture lyrique, presque incantatoire, marie intensité narrative et poésie sensorielle.

Son premier roman, Éclats d’Éternite, a marqué par sa puissance émotionnelle.
Avec Nova Core, il pousse plus loin encore les limites de la narration, en intégrant les premices de l’univers graphique de sa future bande dessinée, en préparation avec l’illustrateur Pierre Gonzales.
“J’écris comme on hack un coeur. Sans autorisation.”

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Autobiographical novel

Published on October 8, 2024
by New Vessel Press
208 pages

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In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones.
Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family.
Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator’s relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?

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Cécile Desprairies
is a specialist in Germanic civilization
and a historian of the Nazi occupation of France.

 

The author
of several historical works about the occupation
and the Vichy regime,
she was born in Paris in 1957.

 

The Propagandist is her first novel.

 

 

 

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(Christian) Historical fiction – WWII

Published on June 3, 2025
by Bethany House Publishers
396 pages

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Loyalty during Peril
In the heart of war-torn France, Isabelle Seauve’s resolve is tested after her father sacrifices his life to protect her involvement in the French Resistance. Heartbroken, Isabelle becomes more dedicated to hiding Jewish children in and near the village of Sisteron despite the growing danger when she discovers a traitor within the Resistance ranks.

Truth amid Deception
As the shadow of betrayal looms, Isabelle’s world collides with that of US Army Chaplain Peter Christensen, who carries emotional scars from his first position in Kentucky and his service in North Africa. Together, they face the brutal reality of war as the second D-Day—the Allied invasion of Provence—unfolds.

Bravery through Trial
Fifteen-year-old René Amblard narrowly escapes a devastating German attack that claims the lives of his mother and their fellow Maquis fighters. With a Jewish orphan girl at his side, René seeks out his cousin Isabelle for refuge while he contemplates revenge.

When the bombs of Operation Dragoon begin to fall, this unlikely group of heroes must first find freedom in their souls before they can rebuild what has been destroyed.

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ELIZABETH MUSSER,
an Atlanta native, writes ‘entertainment with a soul’ from her writing chalet—tool shed—outside Lyon, France.
Elizabeth’s award winning, best-selling novel, The Swan House,
was named one of Amazon’s Top Christian Books of the Year,
one of Georgia’s Top Ten Novels of the Past 100 Years
and was awarded the Gold Illumination Book Award 2021 for Enduring Light Fiction.

All of Elizabeth’s novels have been translated into multiple languages and have been international bestsellers.
Two Destinies, the final novel in The Secrets of the Cross trilogy, was a finalist for the 2013 Christy Award.
The Long Highway Home was a finalist for the 2018 Carol Awards.
The Promised Land won the 2021 Carol Award for Contemporary Fiction
and won second place in Literary Fiction at the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Awards.

Elizabeth’s most recent novel, By Way of the Moonlight, is a Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten Pick in Religion and Spirituality for Fall Releases in 2022 and Parable and ECPA bestseller and was a finalist for the 2023 Christy Award.

For over thirty-five years, Elizabeth and her husband, Paul, have been involved in missions’ work in Europe with One Collective, formerly International Teams.
The Mussers have two sons, two daughters-in-law and five grandchildren.

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Elizabeth spends half the year in Lyon, France and half the year in the US, near Chattanooga, TN.
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