The Necrotist

By: MELANIE WALKER

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Dark Acidemia meets Supernatural Desire

They say ghosts can’t love.
But they’ve never met mine.

My name is Isla Hartwell, and I make my living chasing the dead. I’m the lead researcher on one of the world’s most-watched paranormal programs—haunted castles, forgotten hospitals, whispers through static. It’s all I’ve ever wanted: proof that there’s more beyond the dark.

Nine years ago, during a date that nearly cost me my life, something I couldn’t understand attached itself to me and protected me from certain death. A quiet presence. Protective. Unseen. I called him Ghost Bestie—a joke that carried me through every sleepless night since.

Until the night danger came for me again… and he stepped out of the shadows.

Thaddeus Evander Blackwell.
Six-feet-four of impossible beauty and power. A necrotist—something between life and death itself. He knows my every secret, every shiver, every desire I’ve never spoken aloud. I am his obsession, his most desired possession and his greatest worry.

But when he came through, so did the essence of the man who tried to end me nine years ago. Now Thaddeus, my unlikely protector, will stop at nothing to keep me alive—even if it means tearing the veil between worlds apart.

I’ve never known love like this.
Not the kind that saves you.
Not the kind that claims you.
Not the kind that destroys you.