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Elowen “Elle” Sallow has spent twenty-six years drowning in other people’s feelings. An empath descended from a cursed matrilineal line, she knows exactly how her story ends: burned out, hollowed out, dead before her time. She takes a position as archivist at Corvo House not to build a life, but to fund her escape from it, until she meets the man the locals call Death himself. Dante Corvo is the head of a syndicate that trades in occult artifacts and supernatural protection. Walled off by betrayal, he hires Elle to organize his archives, never suspecting she carries a power that could unlock the very text his enemies would kill to possess. The house, built on a threshold between worlds, recognizes what they refuse to see: that Elle’s gift is consuming her from within, and Dante’s ancient bloodline is the only anchor that can ground her without being destroyed. As a rival boss known as The Collector closes in, Elle and Dante are drawn into a dangerous game. To survive, they must choose to rewrite a destiny written in bone and older than the country itself.
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THE KING OF LIFE AND DEATH
A Novel
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This novel contains depictions of emotional and physical burnout, terminal illness and death themes, family trauma and estrangement, organized crime violence, occult horror and body horror elements, consensual adult sexual content, and suicidal ideation related to inherited trauma. Reader discretion is advised.
(as the story progresses the list may change as well, please don't read if you are not comfortable)
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