Darkness Unseen (BoyXBoy)

Book 1
Kai Ainsley has been seeing things in mirrors for three weeks.
Not clearly - just flickers. Silver. Gone before he can focus. He tells himself it's grief. It's exhaustion. It's the particular cruelty of losing his parents and being dragged back to the one town his older brother has always been afraid of.
Then they arrive at the manor, and the flickers stop being flickers.
There is a boy in the mirror. Pale, sharp-featured, silver-eyed, and utterly still - watching Kai with the focused patience of something that has been waiting for a very long time. His name is Lucien. He is not alive in any conventional sense. And according to a journal hidden in the attic since 1823, Kai is not the first person in his bloodline to see him.
He won't be the last, either. Not unless something changes.
Lucien has been trapped between worlds for two centuries, bound by a curse built from magic that belonged to a previous version of Kai - a warlock who loved him, lost him, and made the worst possible decision trying to fix it. Now the rules are clear and brutal: Lucien can only appear when Kai is alone. He can only speak when Kai remembers. He can only touch him once Kai chooses.
Three rules. Each one a slow devastation.
As Kai unravels the legacy that binds them - through dreams that feel more like memories, a town with a long and deliberate history, and friends who see more than they should - he begins to understand that the curse isn't just about the past. It's feeding on something. And if this lifetime ends like all the others, there may not be another chance.
But choosing Lucien means remembering everything the original Kai did.
And some truths, once held, cannot be put down.
Darkness Unseen is a slow-burn supernatural romance with gothic atmosphere, dual perspectives, and a connection that refuses to stay dead. Book One of the Darkness Series.