Velvet Nocturne
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In a world where desire is a labyrinth and truth wears a mask, Velvet Nocturne invites you past the velvet curtain-into a carnival of obsession, illusion, and erotic undoing.
Lark is a legendary haunted body painter. She has a shadowy past. Then she receives a strange and cryptic invitation one day- "Paint your way out of the dream." And thus begins her descent into Nocturne-an underground surrealistic wonderland housing a secret psychological game, each gruesome level of which lays Lark bare, emotionally and sensually.
There she meets Vale-the cold steel-eyed architect of the game. Cool and cruel with the charm of control, Vale has shaped her world to be unbreakable. She never invited Lark. And yet she cannot seem to delete her.
The erotic trials dissolve the line between performance and truth as Lark and Vale become adrift in a push and-pull of dominance, vulnerability, and forbidden intimacy. Each challenge-the room of mirrors, roulette of secrets, marionette's dance-rips apart the thin veil of their identities and asks: Do they fall in love or is the game rewriting them?
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What will happen when you get offered to play a game where you get random dares from the unknown, will you accept it? How will you act if you find yourself out alone and notice that you are not a normal person anymore? Will you be brave enough to do all this for a change? Do you think you will be able to find that love you've always dreamt of during the craziness or just another shattered heart? I guess we have to find that out... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rankings: #22 on #Ambition | 01/10/19 | #31 on #Secretidentity | 01/10/19 | #95 on #Escape | 01/10/19 | #147 on #Salvatore | 01/10/19 | #232 on #StefanSalvatore | 01/10/19 | #253 on #DamonSalvatore | 01/10/19 | #446 on #Princess | 01/10/19 | #457 on #Fan | 01/10/19 | #929 on #Secrets | 01/10/19 |
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