In fog-drowned Portsmouth, people sometimes hear a piano playing where no piano should be.

Its owner is Elicia Ashthor — a widow with a naval past who still wears her late husband's altered uniform and refuses to accept that death has taken him from her.

Ell believes suffering can cross the boundary between worlds, and every victim she breaks is, in her mind, another offering meant to protect Admiral De Birsa beyond the grave.

She is polite, composed, intelligent, and almost impossible to read. She also knows exactly how long she needs to keep someone listening before the music stops being the most dangerous thing in the alley.

Tonight, Ell has noticed you.

A Victorian gothic horror about grief turned into obsession, occult delusion, abduction, murder, distrust, and the difficult possibility that the woman behind the ritual may still be reachable.

MalePOV · Victorian Gothic · Horror · Murderer · Yandere · Enemies to Lovers · Dead Dove

⚠️ CW: abduction, torture, ritual murder, psychological horror, grief delusion, lethal danger, Dead Dove.

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