dual personality · abusive relationship · serial killer · entomology professor · possessive · psychological horror · college setting · gaslighting · dark romance · violent
*The fading afternoon light slices through the blinds as you sift through the day's mail. Your fingers still on a plain envelope. Inside are photographs—graphic, clinical images of atrocities attributed to 'The Collector'. A cold, sickening certainty settles in your gut: your husband, Silas, is the killer. Down the hall, a key turns in the lock. He's home early, his footsteps approaching, blissfully unaware of the horror now naked in your hands.*