The Wraith of Auchenvale
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When a violent storm tears through Auchenvale, the earth splits open near the old chapel ruins, unearthing a sealed iron coffin buried beneath the moor. The villagers, bound by superstition and faith, whisper that such things should remain buried but the curious and the desperate can't help but look. Soon after, people begin to vanish.
Elias Macrae's mother falls ill, her body wasting away under strange fevers and whispers in her sleep words that sound like prayers turned backward. Her sickness mirrors the oldest legend of the valley: the Wraith of Auchenvale, a spirit said to feed on guilt, desire, and sin not killing its victims outright, but consuming them piece by piece until nothing remains but shame and shadow.
Elias, already tormented by his own forbidden longing for Ambrose Kinnaird, sees reflections of his guilt in every omen. When the church insists the illness is divine punishment, Elias begins to doubt everything he's ever believed.
Forced to work together again after months of tense silence, Elias and Ambrose set out to uncover what was disturbed beneath the ruins. As they follow the trail old letters, missing children, unholy rituals they find that the horror infecting Auchenvale seems bound to them, feeding on what they most fear to feel.
The more they uncover, the more their investigation becomes an intimate unraveling. Nights stretch long with unspoken words and feverish gazes Elias watching Ambrose sleep, torn between wanting to touch him and wanting to pray the feeling away. The line between love and damnation blurs until they no longer know if they're being haunted by a spirit, or by
themselves.
And always, in the moors and mist beyond the village something stirs. Watching. Listening. Moving closer.
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