Her Sleep Paralysis Demon [MARA]

Hannah Vollitera has always seen the dead.
Shadows linger too long around her bed, whispers cling to the ceiling at night, and sleep has never been a place of safety-until she moves into the house everyone else refuses to stay in.

That's where Mara lives.
She appears in the paralysis between breaths, in the stillness where the body cannot move and the mind cannot scream. To anyone else, Mara is a nightmare-an ancient presence born of fear and sleeplessness. To Hannah, she is something else entirely. A watcher. A protector. A demon who never harms, only holds.

Hannah falls first-hard and helpless-drawn to the quiet devotion in Mara's gaze, to the way the demon softens only for her.

Mara falls deeper, loving with a possessive tenderness that borders on holy, binding herself to Hannah's sleep so no other darkness can touch her.

Mara becomes Hannah's sleep paralysis...
and her sanctuary.

In a house soaked with terror and nights thick with ghosts, love blooms in the stillness between heartbeats-where a demon chooses one woman, and one woman alone, to guard forever.