The Girl Who Touched His Shadow: Bound Beyond the Light

The city bleeds neon and rot, and Morvexis walks straight through it. Part man, part legend, his shadow moves on its own reading sin, sealing wounds, and hunting the people the law never reaches. He’s hard to kill. And dangerously easy to break when love gets involved.

Elara Voss lives quietly with the visions she can’t explain, painting what she sees so it won’t swallow her whole. One night, in cold rain streaking the pavement, she spots him a dark figure with a shadow that stretches beyond his body. Instead of running, she reaches out.

The darkness answers.

When her fingers brush the living shadow, something wakes. Memories neither of them understand. A pull that settles deep in their bones.

Their connection grows in hidden hours and risky encounters, where want blurs into something heavier. Each touch draws Morvexis closer to the source of his curse. Each breath Elara shares with him stirs something old and hungry inside the dark. She might be his anchor to humanity or the spark that sets it all on fire.

As dangerous syndicates move in and pieces of a long-buried betrayal rise to the surface, staying together becomes its own kind of battle.

One fearless touch could save him. Or end them both.

Can love survive when darkness is alive and watching?

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Discover the legend behind the man the city calls Shade Morvexis.

Before the city ever whispered his name, it felt his presence. Fear in empty alleys. Silence where screams should’ve been.

Morvexis didn’t rise as a hero. He was shaped by betrayal, pulled into darkness, and bound to a power that breathes in shadow. The night his life was ripped apart, the light left him behind.

The darkness stayed.

It answered.

Now he moves between man and something older. Hurt, but standing. Human, yet hard to kill. Every crime leaves a mark in the dark, and he’s the only one who can read it.

But beneath the violence and the hunt, there’s need. And in every chapter of his life, one woman finds her way past his defenses. Her touch burns where shadows can’t reach. Want turns into the one thing that steadies him and the one thing that can ruin him.

He isn’t justice.

He’s what rises when justice disappears.

He is Shade Morvexis.

And darkness has finally met its match.

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