These Hallowed Bones (Bloody Desires)

Here's L Eveland's "These Hallowed Bones." It's a novel in the multi-author series, Bloody Desires. 

["He saw the monster in me and called it beautiful.

Micah Salt destroys every painting he creates, desperate to silence the darkness whispering beneath his skin. The same darkness that made him sit beside his mother's corpse for three days, finding art in her decay.

The church called it sin. Therapy called it trauma. But Professor Ezra Bishop calls it potential.

Ezra doesn't want to fix Micah. He wants to refine him. A renowned artist with secrets bloodier than his brushstrokes, Ezra offers Micah something no one else ever worship without salvation.

In the quiet shadows of his studio, Ezra teaches Micah that bones make pigment, that death is a canvas, and that monsters deserve to be seen. He doesn't just want a lover. He wants a devotee. A masterpiece shaped by blood, devotion, and shared hunger.

As lessons blur into rituals and touch into worship, Micah realizes he isn't just learning technique. He's being transformed. But when the student begins to evolve beyond his teacher's design, their intoxicating bond starts to unravel.

What they create together could destroy them both. Or it could be their salvation."]

This book was also very introspective, very poetic in its talk of morality and vulnerability. But the conversations were dual in talking about art and talking about self, all the while creating a bond between the two annnd discussing inner darkness. Plus they used this conversations to flirt. Really multitasking there. ;) 

I wasn’t sure for a while if Ezra was stalking and manipulating (transforming) Micah so he could be his next victim or if he could be his future partner. I’m not sure if Ezra knew, to be honest. But they fell together into a void of devotion and darkness, and they fell in love. They completed each other, in their own twisted and artsy ways.

Trigger Warnings: graphic murder, dismemberment, and manipulation; detailed surgical procedures on living and dead individuals; extensive descriptions of blood and other bodily fluids; removal and preservation of body parts; torture and amputation; power imbalance; psychological manipulation and grooming; kidnapping and captivity; non-con drugging; stalking; religious trauma including conversion therapy and exorcism; childhood emotional and verbal abuse and neglect; references to maternal suicide witnessed by a child; isolation and control tactics by authority figures; mental illnesses, dissociation; intrusive thoughts; self-harm; discussion of psychiatric hospitalization; religious desecration and blasphemy; body horror elements; references to cannibalistic behavior; and more.

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