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Kara Saunders is a budding photographer with a taste for architecture. When she runs into Lysander Blackwood, a wealthy aristocrat with an air of mystery about him, she jumps on a once in a lifetime opportunity: the famous Blackwood Manor as a muse, and a week to explore and photograph. Lysander lets Kara stay in the residence for a small fee, and she takes his offer gratefully, but behind the magnificent facade of the mansion, something else lurks, and she doesn't know who, or rather what, Mr Blackwood is, and what exactly it is that he is hiding.
(BTW this isn't a werewolf short despite the cover)
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