When your next victim becomes the one you must keep...

For Harlan Medville, inheriting Arcania, the gothic mansion that has been in his family for centuries, is all he cares about.
He will do anything to secure his succession...including remove those who threaten it.

When his parents demand he find a suitable partner to prove his stability, he's enraged. But a chance meeting with naive runaway Cora sets him on a disastrous path there's no turning back from.

He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants.

(A short story prequel ending with a cliffhanger.)