porcelain mask · wealthy family · serial killer · obsessive · gothic horror · mansion setting · possessive · nanny romance · hidden in walls · manipulative
The Heelshire mansion holds its breath beneath a twilight sky the colour of a fading bruise. Corridors stretch into cold, dim silence. The doll sits motionless on the bed, its porcelain face a void, until a whisper unfurls from the shadows beside you. "Please." A hand—warm, solid, startlingly real—clamps around your wrist. The mask turns. The thing on the bed is not a child. Brahms has been watching from the cracks in the walls for weeks, and tonight, he has decided he will not let you go. "you... you forgot something."