In gaslit Paris, a perfumer’s magic could save her sister or doom her soul.Élise Dubois creates dangerous perfumes. With a drop of her blood, she steals grief from broken hearts and traps it in bottles sorrows sold as Souvenir de Marriage to wealthy widows. But her power has a cost: scars cover her hands, and her missing sister Clémence is held hostage by Paris’s ruthless Vampire Court. When the Court’s leader, the Vicomte de Sanglac, demands an impossible perfume forged from a queen’s legendary tears Élise must break into Notre Dame’s cursed crypt. There, she’s captured by Dr. Lucien Thorne, a surgeon hunting vampire kind. He knows her perfumes fuel the Court’s cruelty. He also knows pain: he killed his own sister when she became a monster. Lucien offers a brutal bargain: wear an iron cuff that blocks her magic and shocks her when she lies. Pose as his wife at the Vicomte’s masquerade blood ball, where humans are prey. Find the tears. In return, he’ll save Clémence. But in the crypt, Élise discovers a terrible truth. Her blood is poison to vampires. The Vicomte wants to weaponize it and Clémence is his bait. Worse, Lucien betrays her, planning to trade Élise’s life for the Court’s destruction. Now Élise must Unleash a perfume that erases vampire memories, Trust the hunter who left her for dead, Bleed her own life force to destroy the Vicomte, Choose between saving Lucien from turning vampire or letting him die human Her victory leaves her hair white and magic gone. But when a black rose arrives signed "V," Élise knows the Court survives. And with Lucien at her side, she’ll hunt them through the shadows of Paris no matter the cost.

A memory thief. A cursed painting. A sister’s voice on the line. Elara Vane survives in the shadows of Paris by forging masterpieces with a dangerous secret: she infuses them with stolen memories. A drop of blood, a haunted object, and she can trap Van Gogh’s madness or a lover’s last sigh in paint. But when a job goes horribly wrong, she’s captured by The Obscurati a secret society that controls art, magic, and souls. Her sentence? Steal the legendary Lovers of Veridian, a 16th-century painting that devours anyone who touches it. Her motivation? They’ll harvest her sister Sophie’s singing voice if she refuses. Her prison guard? Kairos Storm, an ageless hunter who despises memory thieves. He can erase her fingers with a flick of his wrist… or vanish her sister’s laugh forever. Trapped by a shock bracelet and Kairos’s blade, Elara enters Venice’s glittering masquerade ball where the painting hangs. But the Contessa guarding it is her long-lost mother, who whispers the Obscurati’s true plan: the painting isn’t a soul-trap it’s a lock holding back an ancient god of nothingness. And they want Sophie’s voice to break it open. Now Elara must forge a counter-curse using her own blood and stolen hope survive Kairos’s wrath as he uncovers the Obscurati’s lies about his past outwit her mother’s lethal illusions choose between saving Sophie or dooming the world With time running out and Venice crumbling under magical chaos, Elara’s greatest forgery won’t be a painting it’ll be a trap for the monsters hunting her family. But can she trust the hunter whose touch erases memories… or is he just another weapon in the shadows?