A Clockwork Reliquary
Dylan Rose
Eighty years ago, Malakai Vane cheated death. Using a mysterious brass machine hidden in the attic of Blackwood Hall, he bound his soul to the estate, transforming himself into a being of pure solar energy. He did it to create a sanctuary—a golden, timeless loop where he and his lover, Kit, could hide from a world that wanted to destroy them.
Christopher "Kit" Vane is the ice to Malakai’s fire. Gentle, traumatized, and deeply devoted, he serves as the anchor for Malakai’s volatile power. For decades, they have existed as ghosts in a machine, safe within the rotting walls of their ancestral home.
But the twenty-first century has arrived, and it doesn’t believe in ghosts.
When the bank forecloses on Blackwood Hall, the illusion of safety shatters. First come the surveyors, then the bulldozers, and finally, a government containment team hunting for an electromagnetic anomaly.
As the "Clockwork Reliquary" begins to fail and the walls close in, Malakai faces an impossible drain the last of his soul to maintain their cage, or shatter the machine that binds them—and risk fading into the darkness forever.
From the author of Hollow Grace comes a haunting M/M romance about the cost of holding on and the terrifying beauty of letting go.
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