Whispers from the Grave

Previously

…The line between her own burgeoning desires and his spectral influence was blurring, dissolving like mist in the morning sun. She felt a strange, almost desperate yearning to understand, to control this power, to unravel the secrets of her family’s dark past. But as she looked into the spectral eyes of the man in the mirror, she couldn't shake the chilling premonition that in her quest for answers, she was stepping onto a path from which there might be no return. The sorcerer’s gaze held her captive, promising both salvation and damnation, and in the shadowed heart of Blackwood Manor, Thea felt herself succumbing to its perilous allure.