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When Detective Jeon Jungkook is assigned to the Kim Estate a sprawling manor soaked in silence and sealed off by tragedy he expects a case of violence, perhaps madness. Every member of the Kim family is dead. All but one.
Kim Taehyung.
The heir. The enigma. The beautiful boy with a voice like velvet and eyes that know too much.
Jungkook arrives seeking answers, but the house offers only riddles. The walls breathe. The halls whisper. And Taehyung untouched, unbothered moves through it all like a god in mourning. Or perhaps a monster pretending to grieve.
The deeper Jungkook digs, the stranger things become. Ritual markings beneath the floorboards. Dreams that bleed into waking. Shadows that remember his name. And Taehyung impossibly magnetic, impossibly calm who looks at him like he's already been chosen.
As desire tangles with fear, and truth with nightmare, Jungkook begins to wonder if Taehyung is the key to solving the murders or the reason they happened at all.
Because this house doesn't want justice.
It wants a witness.
And once it lets you in, it never lets you go.
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