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Til Death and Then Some

Name: Til Death and Then Some
Author: I. I. Dahlia

This story contains themes of: cheating, domestic violence, extreme violence gore, suicide, violent death, explicit imagery

Romeo And Juliet

Story Notes

A slow-burn gothic horror where Shakespeare’s lovers are reimagined as predators, victims, and liars in a century-long haunting. Told in two braided timelines — the “original” tragedy and the investigation a hundred years later — the story begins as a faithful retelling, then fractures into betrayal, ritual murder, and a legend so corrupted it becomes dangerous.

The narrative blends:

Unreliable witnesses & reflections — the truth shifts depending on who’s telling it.

Ritual magic — moon-binding vows, vow mirrors, and cursed relics tie past to present.

Psychological intimacy & horror — love scenes that double as traps, murders that feel inevitable.

Contradicting realities — timelines leak into each other until the reader can’t be certain which came first.

Tone & style: Lyrical, immersive, and deliberately unsettling. Violence is intimate rather than gratuitous; romance is magnetic but corrupted. Every scene serves both character psychology and the larger puzzle, drawing the reader toward an ending they’ll question long after the last page.

Summary

At the honeymoon retreat of Valoria, love is meant to last forever — yet for over a century, newlyweds have been leaving in coffins. Detective Mara Vey comes to investigate a bride’s brutal murder, but the deeper she searches, the more she’s drawn into Valoria’s oldest ghost story — the doomed romance of Romeo and Juliet. The problem? Their love was never what the legend claims. What really happened on those moonlit balconies and in the cathedral’s shadowed halls is a story stitched with lies, rewritten until the truth bled out entirely. Every clue Mara finds contradicts the last. Every mirror in Saint Lucra’s Cathedral shows her a version of herself she doesn’t recognize. And somewhere between the past and the present, the lovers are still moving — still changing the ending. In Valoria, love doesn’t die. It waits.

Genre: Mystery/Romance

Author: I. I. Dahlia

Status: Ongoing

Chapters: 14

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

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Till Death and Then Some

A Gothic Supernatural Mystery of Valoria

By: i. i. Dahlia

Abyssal Quill Studios

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1. Title Page

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