Soul Serum

By Mr H L Taylor

"She tried to preserve beauty. But beauty preserved her instead."

Elara D'Amour once believed scent was a form of memory-fleeting, fragile, and worth preserving. As a famed archivist in Paris's elite fragrance circles, she built her life on cataloging the smells of stars, dead muses, and forgotten icons. Until one article ruined her career-a piece about Dorian Hale, a mythic celebrity whose personal scent she claimed captured redemption itself.

The industry called it fiction. The Archive called it fraud.

Now blacklisted and forgotten, Elara lives in silence-until a girl draped in fur and pearls leaves a black bottle on her caf table. One spray, and the world bends.

She's soon pulled into Maison Miroir, a haunted estate where souls are distilled into luxury perfumes. There, worship becomes extraction. The desperate become ingredients. And the infamous Madame Vanta offers Elara the one thing she's always craved: to be remembered forever.

But immortality has a cost.

As the mirrors whisper and the vats fill with violet-gold serum, Elara must confront the darkest truth: she was never archiving memory. She was bottling her own undoing.

Soul Serum is a gothic horror fantasy about fame, identity, devotion, and the violence of beauty. A seductive descent into a world where the body is perfume, the self is a myth, and longing is the most valuable scent of all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRXRGD95
• ISBN13: 9798266218192
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"