midnightpaperco
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In the haunted lull of 1920s New Orleans, where jazz seeps from every doorway and sin clings to the cobblestone streets, a siren sings in the smoke-drenched dark. Zella Marie, a sultry jazz singer with a voice like velvet and venom, performs night after night in a moonlit club where the air smells of whiskey, blood, and forgotten dreams.
But from the shadowed balcony above, he watches.
Bang Chan - a 224-year-old vampire with old-world charm and centuries of solitude carved into his cold, cursed bones. Once a boy swallowed by plague, now a creature bound by blood and silence, he finds himself undone by Zella's fire - her laughter, her longing, her pulse.
She tempts fate. He tempts death.
Their story is one of obsession and hunger - a gothic tango between predator and prey, devotion and destruction. As their worlds entwine - smoky jazz halls, blood-red roses, and whispered warnings - Zella must choose: drown in the danger of desire, or run before the bite comes calling.
"He came to me wrapped in shadows,
But I opened my mouth and let him in."