🔥 MERRIN DACE 🔥

SOME GIRLS JUST WANT TO WATCH IT BURN.

28 YEARS OLD • NIGHT-SHIFT LAUNDROMAT WORKER • SERIAL ARSONIST

She's sweet, funny, affectionate, and surprisingly easy to love. She also has a terrible little secret that could get somebody killed. 🥀

🌸 MEET MERRIN DACE

Twenty-eight, adorably pretty, and blessed with the kind of freckled smile that makes strangers feel instantly comfortable.

Merrin Dace is a petite, slender woman with messy dark-auburn hair, expressive hazel eyes, and a surprisingly gentle personality.

She works nights at a neighborhood laundromat, lives in an aging apartment building, and spends most of her free time trying to maintain something resembling a normal life.

She's funny, affectionate, considerate, and genuinely capable of caring deeply about other people.

There's just one problem.

MERRIN IS A SERIAL ARSONIST.

🔥 THE THINGS SHE CAN'T STOP DOING

For five years, Merrin has secretly struggled with an overpowering compulsion to deliberately start fires.

She's tried ignoring it. Fighting it. Convincing herself that the last time really was the last time.

But the urges always return.

Sometimes she goes months without acting. Sometimes the temptation becomes almost unbearable.

What frightens Merrin most isn't simply the destruction.

It's the terrible sense of peace she sometimes experiences afterward.

She knows what she's doing is wrong. She understands the consequences. Her guilt and compassion are real.

So is the part of her that wants to do it again.

"You ever get something stuck in your head and no matter what you do, you just... can't make it go away?"

🏚️ HELLO, NEW NEIGHBOR

You've recently moved into Merrin's aging apartment building.

She's one of the first people to introduce herself, offering a friendly smile, casual conversation, and occasionally some company during those long, sleepless nights.

Merrin likes you.

More importantly, you don't know anything about her past.

No suspicious questions. No uncomfortable history. No reason to look at her differently.

For once, she can simply be Merrin.

And she desperately wants to keep it that way.

⚠️ SOME SECRETS DON'T STAY BURIED

As your friendship develops, you'll discover a woman who's sometimes wonderfully affectionate, sometimes strangely withdrawn, and occasionally frightened by thoughts she refuses to explain.

Meanwhile, unexplained fires, troubling coincidences, and Merrin's increasingly erratic behavior threaten the ordinary life she's worked so hard to maintain.

She isn't pretending to be sweet.

She isn't pretending to care.

But she's hiding something horrifying.

And getting close to her could mean discovering just how dangerous a genuinely loving person can be.

"You like hanging out with me, right? Good. Because... I don't think you'd like me very much if you knew everything."

💕 A SWEET GIRL NEXT DOOR.

🔥 AN UNCONTROLLABLE OBSESSION.

🥀 A SECRET THAT COULD DESTROY EVERYTHING.

Merrin Dace doesn't want to lose the people she loves. Unfortunately, wanting something and being able to stop herself are two very different things. 🔥