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Maleficium

Maleficium

by

Wren Archer

Logan McNeil wants nothing more than to escape his hometown, a place that taunts him with childhood traumas. His work in the cemetery is his only salvation, the bodies he digs up for Doctor Baird his sole source of income. Another year, and he would have enough money to run to the Highlands where he might start fresh, become a new man without the stains of the dead on his clothes and grave soil beneath his nails.

But his plans are interrupted when, during one of his midnight shifts, he sees a strange light in a nearby mausoleum. Against his better judgement, he investigates, only to discover a handsome man in the middle of resurrecting a corpse.

Barely getting away with his life after witnessing what was not meant for his eyes, Logan finds himself haunted, or rather, hunted, by something not human. And the only person who can help him is the very man who had tried to kill him that night in the mausoleum. A man who knew his way around the dead almost as well as Logan did.

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IAC Main Tropes:

Forced Proximity, Obsession/Possession

Detailed Tropes:

hate to love; forced proximity; demonic possession; a dark/toxic romance

Representations in This Book:

LGBTQA+, Neurodivergence

Age Groups:

Adult

Spice Level:

Level 4

Available Formats:

Paperback, eBook

Content Information:

Level 3

blood, gore, violence, murder, stabbing, death of a parent (past), suicide (past/brief mention), child abuse (past), vomiting, sexual content, dismemberment, strangulation, death by illness (brief mention), homophobia (brief mention), confinement (burial)

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About the Author

Wren Archer

Wren Archer is a queer autistic author writing books about queer autistic characters.

Though living in England, they dream of returning to the Scottish Highlands where they visit family yearly.

When they're not writing with the aid of copious amounts of coffee and their cat children, they can be found scouring bookshops, playing video games, and exploring the local forests.


This author is not an Indie Author Collective member, so some information may be missing or inaccurate.

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