Eleanor never wanted this life. Married off to Boe-a wealthy man twice her age, known for his violence, infidelity, and sharp silences-she learned early that love can burn colder than hate. He drinks. He lies. He fights. She smokes to breathe through it.
Bound by secrets and habits that rot from the inside out, their marriage becomes a quiet war. Neither wins. Neither surrenders. But when Boe dies suddenly in a car crash, Eleanor's world unravels in slow motion.
Left alone with the ghosts of their home, she drowns herself in whiskey, cigarettes, and the endless hum of the television-until the static begins to sound like his voice. And when the grief becomes unbearable, she turns to darker fascinations: documentaries about killers, obsessions with control, and the calm that comes before destruction.
What begins as mourning turns into method. What begins as love turns into revenge.
By the time Eleanor's final act unfolds, the truth is already twisted beyond recognition-and no one will ever know where the lies end and the love begins.
A toxic love story about denial, control, and the quiet violence between two broken souls-bound by the same ghost
It starts fast-like lightning striking dry earth. What begins as a spark becomes a fire neither of them can contain. It's the kind of love that keeps you up at night, wide-eyed and breathless, not out of fear, but because you can't bear to miss a single moment. It bruises the heart in places no one sees, but never breaks it-never harms it. Just leaves fingerprints, soft and lingering.
Leaving would be easier if love ever truly left. But it doesn't. It lingers in the walls, in the sheets, in the silence between words. One heart clings to memory, loving what was. The other leans into the unknown, loving what might be. And somewhere in between, love becomes a duty-an unspoken promise, heavy and unshakable.
All she wants is quiet now. Not the silence of loneliness, but the stillness of peace. A place where her heart doesn't have to choose between two kinds of love-only rest in the safety of her own.