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Soul Serum
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 café 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.
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