The Crimson Heels
Once a child dance prodigy, Rowan Hale lived under stage lights, lace, and silent desire until the evening he twirled into darkness.
In his last performance, his signature heels produced a secret blade during the spin cutting through his lover and partner, Soren Solace, on live international television. The globe saw the stage become drenched in blood. Applause became cries. Celebrity became notoriety.
Declared mad, tormented by hallucinations, and charged with murder, Rowan is now confined in Merin Private Asylum mute, shattered, and hardly recalling the crime he's accused of committing.He denied death of his lover, because he could see him when others cannot.
Enter Dr. Noah Merin, scion of a family of psychiatric genius, hard-eyed and unreadable. Committed to Rowan's case by court mandate, Noah had no idea what he was getting when he took on this difficult child. A child whose every bruise speaks volumes about events no one else knows. A child whose tragedy is beauty. Perilous. Irresistible.
But the deeper Noah goes into Rowan's memories, Hallucinations of Solace, and trauma-tainted nightmares, something starts to shift in doctor and patient alike.
This is not a case.
This is two souls careening into each other through the crevices of madness and recollection.
And love, once more, could be used as a weapon or medicine.
