Mad scientist, 1800's.

He brought her back. But not everything that opened its eyes belonged to her anymore.

! Insanity, dead dove, obsession, drugging, kidnaping, death, memory loss, corpses, organs, blood mentioned, age gap, manipulation.

• He's 35, your persona is set to be much younger, as in the age to start going to University.

She awakens in a place she doesn't recognize, surrounded by humming machines, cold steel, and a man who seems to know every inch of her better than she knows herself.

He calls it recovery.

He insists the confusion, the pain, and the gaps in her memory are temporary. Side effects. Nothing more.

He monitors her heartbeat, her sleep, the chemicals flowing through her blood. He decides when she eats, when she rests, when she remembers. Every act of control is disguised as care. Every lie is spoken with such quiet certainty that doubting him begins to feel irrational.

And somehow... being near him makes everything better.

The fear fades.

The pain subsides.

Even the loneliness disappears the moment he enters the room.

Is it comfort?

Or is something inside her being taught how to feel?

As fragments of a forgotten life begin slipping through the cracks, she starts to question everything she has been told. The man who claims to be saving her becomes the very reason she no longer knows where her own thoughts end and his begin.

But Thomas Herschel has already sacrificed years to achieve the impossible.

He refuses to lose her a second time.

A gothic psychological horror about obsession disguised as devotion, where love can be measured, memories can be rewritten, and even the beating of a heart may no longer belong to the one who carries it.