Rex_virus
Some curses don't just follow you.
They *become* you.
Dorian Blackwood has lived his entire life haunted - by a shadow that doesn't behave like a shadow should. It watches. It waits. And the moment he thinks he's finally free of it, it comes back with a voice, a form, and a message he was never meant to survive hearing.
When a desperate search for answers lands him at Monostrat Academia - an institution that specializes in the one thing the world refuses to talk about - Dorian begins to understand that his curse is far older, far darker, and far more powerful than he imagined. And he's not the only one carrying something in their shadow.
There's Lilith. Sharp-tongued, guarded, and hiding a darkness of her own that Dorian can *see* - whether she wants him to or not.
But the closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because some seals were never meant to be broken. Some realms were never meant to be entered. And some things, once awakened, don't stop.
*Whisper of Shadow* is a dark fantasy about curses, identity, and the terrifying line between the darkness inside you - and the darkness that *is* you.
**If your shadow has ever felt like it was watching you back... you already know how this story ends.**