Sketching_perfection
Jacqueline is a psychiatrist in supernatural research at The Institution, a mysterious organization of clinicians dedicated to exploring the unliving world. She is also a mother dying of cancer and is convinced Immortality's curse is her only hope of a pain-free life with her daughter. Lacy is a vampire and a prisoner of her care, burdened with a choice: Tell her story and earn her freedom or bite her tongue and wait for her captor to die of the illness poisoning her blood. With each passing day Jacqueline's tortures grow more extreme and the price of staying silent grows steeper. When Jacqueline threatens to turn her torture on the auburn-haired, bright-eyed, Caed-Lacy's longtime paramour and accomplice in crime-she begins to talk, and the tale she weaves is one marred by tragedy and marked in blood. From the gallows of Salem to the wild, western reaches of Tombstone, Arizona, Lacy spins a story of love and loss in a world where the greatest monsters are not the shadows that go bump in the night, but the people we know best. As Death stalks the shadows of Lacy's tale, and Immortality lures her to sign away her soul for a promise of eternal bliss, Jacqueline starts to wonder if getting what you want is a blessing or a curse. And whether the things we hunt are the things that haunt us in the end.