The Past Still Breathes is a tender yet bold debut memoir drawing from deep, lived experiences across widely contrasting worlds

Kirstyn Lewis stands before a locked Upper East Side door with a key that no longer works. Her life is about to shatter.

Taken from her mother’s arms and put up for adoption by the Church, decades later she would have to confront her inheritance but not before a licensed killer, whose love was as tactical as his training, would expose the truth.

From the sterile, bleach-scented corridors of Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric ward to the thin, sub-zero air of the Himalayas and the sands of Dubai, in a world shaped by silence and survival , where power, control and desire collide, The Past Still Breathes is a raw, intimate and unforgettable story told across cultures and continents.