The Three Beneath - Book 1: Michael [HIATUS]

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Summary

Maria Rossi, a scholar of religious history, has spent her life searching for meaning in sacred texts, rituals, and contradictions. Drawn inexplicably to Orvieto despite a childhood terror she cannot explain, she joins a small research team investigating a modest church built over unexplored foundations. What Maria does not know—what no one fully understands—is that she is bound to what sleeps beneath the stone.

Status
Ongoing
Chapters
11
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Disclaimer

Trigger Warning

This book explores themes that may be disturbing or triggering for some readers.

It contains explicit sexual content and erotic intimacy, including non-traditional and transcendent expressions of sexuality. It engages deeply with religious imagery, belief systems, and institutions, and intentionally challenges established doctrines and sacred narratives.

The story addresses themes of power, control, fear-based authority, spiritual manipulation, trauma, obsession, and sacrifice. It includes depictions of psychological distress, moral conflict, and self-sacrifice, including acts that may be interpreted as suicide for the perceived benefit of others.

This work is not written to shock, but it does not soften as you move along through it. It examines the collision between faith and instinct, divinity and humanity, freedom and fear.

Reader discretion is advised.

If these themes are likely to cause distress, this is your invitation to step away.

For those who continue: proceed with openness, courage, and care. This story asks questions rather than offering comfort, and it definitely does not apologise for doing so.


Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2026 by Eve Vile

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No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, institutions, and events are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events is purely coincidental.