Emile Channing moved to Haldingh for one thing: quiet.
Instead, he found a catering shop that smelled of funeral roses, a tired woman named Helena with ice-cold hands, and something ancient wearing her like a coat.
What begins as an accidental encounter spirals into a slow, merciless seduction. A presence that knows his grief, his loneliness, and the hidden door inside his mind. As it tightens its grip—whispering in his own voice, opening terrible windows in his skull—Emile must learn to fight an entity that feeds on consent and cannot be killed, only banished.
But banishing it will cost everything. Because the demon hides behind the one person he cannot bear to lose, and mercy may be the final trap.
A haunting literary horror about grief, possession, and the terrifying price of survival, told by a man who no longer trusts his own memories. Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.
Contains mature themes including psychological trauma, demonic possession, and implied exploitation.
