《The City Beneath Glass 系列英文繪本》The Glass Heiress

English Description

The Glass Heiress tells the haunting story of Detective Miles Harper, a seasoned investigator navigating a city built of mirrors, reflections, and cleverly hidden truths. Miles is hired to find Victoria Glass, the missing daughter of the city’s wealthiest family—a woman known for her beauty, mystery, and the way she always seemed to watch the city from behind dark glasses.

As Miles begins his search, he uncovers signs of an arranged life controlled by handlers, strict schedules, and secretive routines. Witnesses describe Victoria as someone who stared out at the city for hours, convinced reflections revealed truths people refused to see. Rumors swirl of private flights, hidden payments, and a woman who was both watched and watching.

When Miles finally encounters Victoria, she is not frightened, kidnapped, or lost—she is choosing to disappear. She speaks in riddles about truth, lies, and the power of reflection, insisting that every surface shows a different version of who we are. Instead of a victim, she becomes an unsettling mirror to Miles himself, testing his beliefs about honesty, morality, and the responsibility of seeing people as they truly are.

Victoria forces him to face a final choice: expose her location and drag her back into the world she abandoned, or respect her decision to live as a shadow in the city of mirrors. Their encounter leaves Miles questioning the nature of truth, identity, and how much of ourselves we reveal—or hide—when someone is watching.

Dark, atmospheric, and psychologically gripping, The Glass Heiress explores identity, obsession, perception, and the fragile boundary between truth and illusion.

繁體中文內容簡介（Traditional Chinese）

《The Glass Heiress》是一個令人難以忘懷的黑色懸疑故事，主角 偵探 Miles Harper 在一座充滿鏡面與倒影的城市中尋找失蹤的名媛 Victoria Glass。這座城市的每一道光、每一塊玻璃、每一次反射，都藏著祕密與觀看者的影子。

Miles 接下委託後，發現 Victoria 的生活被精心安排：助手、行程、慈善活動、秘密航班、隱密付費紀錄……她的世界完美卻空洞。目擊者形容她常常凝視城市，自稱倒影能說出人們不願承認的真相。

當偵探終於見到 Victoria，她既不是被綁架，也不是迷失——而是自願消失。她以詭異又透徹的語氣談論真相與謊言、觀看與被觀看，並以倒影試探 Miles 的信念，迫使他面對自己對正義與真相的執著。

Miles 最終必須做出抉擇：
— 揭露她的行蹤，將她送回那個她厭倦的金色牢籠？
— 或是 尊重她的選擇，讓她繼續在鏡城的陰影中自由存在？

這場追尋讓 Miles 重新審視真相的重量、人心的多面性，以及倒影中那個被自己忽略的「另一個自己」。

《The Glass Heiress》以獨特的氛圍呈現 身分、幻象、凝視與真實 的複雜交織，是一部美學與懸疑兼具的精緻故事。