alastors_sus_cane
Six months have passed since Columbina's blood soaked the sawdust of the circus floor. Since survival demanded a choice no heart should endure. Pierrot is haunted, broken, and bound by grief-and by the monster who stands closest to him: Harlequin.
In a world where monsters wear human masks and humans are crueler than any beast, Pierrot must perform, survive, and navigate the thin, bloody line between hatred and desire. Harlequin's obsession is a blade pressed to his soul, sharp, unyielding, and impossibly alluring. Together they are fire and ice, predator and prey, bound by love, violence, and the sins of the past.
Pierrot wants to hate him. To flee. To reclaim the pieces of himself that were lost in the shadows of the circus. Harlequin wants to claim him. To dominate, protect, and devour him entirely. And the longer they resist, the hotter the chaos burns.
This is a tale of obsession and desire, of blood and madness, of love that is dangerous, toxic, and all-consuming.