Paris, December 1922.

A single moment of distraction at a train station changes literary history forever. Ernest Hemingway's wife boards a train to meet him in Switzerland, leaving a suitcase unattended for just a moment. When she returns, it's gone. The suitcase had the most precious of contents. Not clothes. Not money. But nearly every story Hemingway had written to that point.

All lost.

Though he tries to move on, Hemingway is haunted by one story in particular-an unfinished tale from his youth, about a boy and a strange fish. His obsession with rewriting it will shadow him for the rest of his life.

But the missing manuscript doesn't vanish. It takes root in the lives of two others: Aldrick, the poor French boy who took the suitcase and becomes enthralled by the stolen words, and Mark, a modern-day literature professor tormented by a cryptic manuscript fragment-three enigmatic pages passed down from his father, a man who once crossed paths with Hemingway in the writer's final, unraveling days.

Lost Story is a haunting meditation on creativity, legacy, and the fictions we cling to-about ourselves, about others, and about the stories that refuse to let us go.