They called me nothing.
His daughter said it to her friend on speakerphone while I stood in the hallway holding towels I’d folded with my own hands. Fat. Pathetic. Desperate. She listed me like a diagnosis. And the worst part wasn’t the cruelty. The worst part was that I believed her.
I married Graham eight months ago. Moved into his dead wife’s house. Cooked from her recipes. Watered her herbs. Slept next to a man who kept her photograph hidden in his nightstand, face down, close enough to reach for in the dark. His daughter looked at me with her mother’s eyes and told me I was nothing, and he sat across the table and said nothing at all.
Then something found me.
On the bathroom floor. Sobbing into my hands after his daughter broke me open. The air went cold. The mirror fogged. And a presence with no body, no shape, no form I could see pressed against my skin and told me she was wrong.
It had been watching me. For eleven years. Since the night I bled out on a hospital floor and opened a door I never learned to close.
It touched me where no one had touched me in months. Saw the body I’d spent thirty-four years hiding. Knew every place I’d given up on, every nerve I’d stopped listening to. And it wanted all of it.
My husband doesn’t reach for me. His daughter wants me gone. The world has been telling me my whole life that I am too much and not enough at the same time.
But the thing in the dark disagrees. And it is not asking permission.
Touched is a full-length standalone novel in the Primal Sins Collection. It features an invisible entity, a plus-size heroine over 35, and a dark romance that will leave you checking the mirrors. HEA guaranteed.
Tropes: invisible entity romance, forbidden touch, domestic horror, plus-size FMC over 35, possessive monster, morally gray heroine, he falls first, only she can see him
