Love After Death

A haunting MM Gothic romance of forbidden love, slow-burning devotion, and the terrible lengths we will go to for the person we cannot bear to lose. For readers who love deeply emotional historical romance, Love After Death is a beautiful, heartbreaking story with a bittersweet ending that will linger long after the final page.Fourteenth-century France, 1348.Lucien de Montfort has spent his childhood surrounded by wealth, duty, and the cold stone walls of the château he will one day inherit. Julien Morel, the son of a physician, belongs to a different world entirely-one of herbs and healing, muddy boots, hidden paths, and a freedom Lucien has never known.When the two boys meet, an unlikely friendship begins.As childhood gives way to adolescence and then adulthood, that friendship quietly becomes something neither man can easily name-and something the world around them would never understand. Years, duty, marriage, and the expectations of their stations may force them apart, but some loves refuse to disappear.Then the Black Death comes to France.As villages fall silent and church bells toll endlessly for the dead, Lucien devotes himself to saving lives. But when the plague threatens the one person he cannot imagine living without, the physician who has spent his life fighting death discovers that grief can make even the impossible seem worth attempting.Hidden within the ruins of an abandoned monastery are forbidden writings-whispers of knowledge that promises something no physician, priest, or grieving man should ever possess:A way to challenge death itself.What follows is a story of devotion and obsession, of stolen years and impossible choices, and of two men discovering that loving someone forever may not mean keeping them forever.Set amid plague-stricken villages, candlelit castle corridors, ancient crypts, ruined monasteries, winter vineyards, and the shadow of death itself, Love After Death is an atmospheric MM historical Gothic romance about friendship becoming love, love becoming obsession, and the haunting question at the center of every great romance:If you were given the chance to defy death for the person you loved... how far would you go?Please note: This is an emotional Gothic romance with a tragic ending rather than a traditional HEA.