The Keeper of the Damned

By Juliette Noire

Dr. Anya Sharma trusts data, not legends. For her, the world is a map of elegant, quantifiable certainties. But when a geographical anomaly in the remote Ural Mountains defies all known science, her obsession leads her to a shimmering tear in the fabric of reality. Driven by a relentless need for answers, she steps through-and into a land of perpetual twilight and profound silence.
Her captor is the realm's only inhabitant: Valerius, a formidable, ancient king, broken by a sorrow so great it has built a world from its own despair.
He sees her as a fascinating specimen, a vibrant anomaly of life in his dead kingdom. She sees him as the ultimate puzzle, a being of immense power and heartbreaking pain. He is her jailer, but his brilliant mind and flashes of raw, protective passion draw her into a dangerous obsession of her own.
Trapped in his desolate castle, Anya discovers that her warmth is the only thing that can soothe the eternal winter of his soul, and his touch-a thing of soul-deep cold and desperate hunger-is the only thing that makes her feel truly alive. But as forces from her own world conspire to exploit the power that binds them, she must risk everything to heal the man behind the monster, before his despair consumes them both.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQ51C4GG
• ISBN13: 9798264104862
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"