"You spend a lot of time looking at death... has it ever looked back at you?" ✧✧✧ Marial Vale photographs the dead for a living, but lately, something in the darkness is watching her back. And then she meets Lucien: impossibly alluring, dangerously inhuman, and offering her a taste of a world she should never enter. She should run. She doesn't. Because obsession is a sickness, and Lucien is the kind of poison she can't resist. ✧✧✧ My entry into the Open Novella Contest 2025.All Rights Reserved