Koji A. Dae Hold My Heart

Suffering from severe depression, Emma seeks out a serial killer who will kill her in the most gruesome way she can describe. But when she backs out of their agreement, she discovers the murderer is host to a parasitic creature from another dimension that feeds on the extremes of pleasure and pain. When the creature turns its attention to Emma, she is torn between the ecstasy of desire and guilt over her new urges. At the same time the killer, no longer protected from his memories by the creature, has to face a century of gruesome murders, including the death that started everything. Hold My Heart is an uncompromisingly dark horror novella about desire-and the things we'll do to get what we really want. Praise for Hold My Heart: "Seductive to the core. Hold My Heart is an intriguing thrill, its world tinged with noir atmosphere and a passion for grime on skin and tongues on blades. And with a creature too? This is everything you could want from a messed-up threesome." -- Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth and A Game in Yellow Content Warnings: Murder, self-harm (cutting), mental health issues (depression), and sexual aphasia.