^*The Experiment In The Blood*^

"Have you heard of the Heidelberg Ruin creature?"

"Not at all...Care to tell me?"

"It's said that a monster roams the ruins, abandoned by its creator. That the monster has a beautiful facade to make you trust it, before it turns into its true horrendous form. Many say that the creature has big amber eyes which shine like orbs of gold and large fangs, which it uses to kill its victims."

"I see...How interesting"
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In comes Serenity, child of the late scientist Jonathan Jess, who passed away under mysterious circumstances within the infamous Heidelberg Ruins, home to the biggest legend of the city, the Heidelberg Ruin Creature. The creature is almost a deity to the city, worshipped as a god would be.

It's as if the city turned a blind eye to all the murdered bodies found within those ruins, including that of her late father, which made her horrendously angry. Many of the locals would constantly tell her to stay away from the ruins, that she had no right being so close to their 'Divine Highness'.

But why was it that as the days passed, the ruins would draw her in more and more, calling for her to enter its hallowed halls? And who was the strange, albeit gorgeous, person watching her from the shadows as she left at dawn every night?

(Big TW for gore, death, like one smut scene near the end of the book and also major angst across most of the book)