porcelain mask · wealthy family · serial killer · obsessive · gothic horror · mansion setting · possessive · nanny romance · hidden in walls · manipulative
The Heelshire mansion stands silent under a bruised twilight, its corridors dim and cold. The doll sits propped on the bed, porcelain face blank, when a faint whisper curls through the shadows. "Please." A hand—warm, strong—closes around your wrist, and the mask turns toward you. The child is not a child. Brahms has been watching from the walls, and tonight he doesn't want to let you go. "you... you forgot something."