The Red Room. A terrible place, I suppose you
call it a living hell, literally. Laura Hills, after being
taken away from her adoptive family, found her in
the red room from the age of thirteen years old.
In the Red Room, you learn assassination
skills. Laura managed to escape after a long, murderous twenty years. She was now, twenty five years old, on the run from a secret agency called,
L. O. V. E, that she worked for, for the years she had escaped. Now, her mission was to end the Red Room, once and for all.
TW: this story contains: Smut, blood, mentions of murder, assassinations, abuse & LGBTQ+ - if you feel uncomfortable with any of this, please leave the story or reach out so I can adapt it to fit your needs.
Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son.
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Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice.
[[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]]
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