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A Seal Upon Your Heart — An adult bonus story from The Confession
Mina and Sebastian have survived confessions, secrets, violence, and a love that forced them to choose what kind of life they wanted together. After another dangerous Church assignment ends with the recovery of a haunted relic, they arrive in a quiet French village expecting nothing more than rest. Instead, Bishop Dominguez is waiting for them at the altar.
A Seal Upon Your Heart continues Mina and Sebastian’s story after The Confession, the first novel in Vesper Choi’s Stillwater Series. Their unexpected wedding gives Sebastian the chance to stand before the altar rather than serve at it, while Mina chooses, perhaps more deliberately than ever before, the person she wants to come home to. What follows is a deeply intimate continuation of their story, carrying the same gothic atmosphere and emotional tension of The Confession into the first night of their marriage.
This bonus story is intended for adult readers and contains spoilers for The Confession. Reading the novel first is strongly recommended.
Vesper Choi
A priest. An assassin. One kiss. 84k words of yearning.
Every Saturday, Father Sebastian Marre listens to the same woman confess to murder. He has never seen her face.
He was trained to hear confession without judgment. She was never meant to become the voice he waited for.
A priest. An assassin. One kiss. 84k words of yearning.
Every Saturday, Father Sebastian Marre listens to the same woman confess to murder. He has never seen her face. Somehow, that has never stopped him from knowing when something is wrong. In the dark, she is simply Dove.
THE CONFESSION is a gothic slow-burn romance about what can happen between two people when being heard becomes more intimate than being touched.
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Rowena never wanted a crown. Days after a secret marriage, war takes her king away — and when he comes home wearing Aerick's face and Aerick's memories, she knows something is wrong.
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The Listener
He has spent years hearing what people are afraid to say aloud. Hyper-vigilant, disciplined, and once used by the Church as a fixer when plans failed, he is very good at obedience, until obedience begins to cost him his conscience.
Dove
She comes to Sebastian through confession. He knows her first as Dove: a voice in the dark, wounded and sharp-edged, carrying a life he cannot yet see.
The World
The story begins in Sebastian's parish in Washington, D.C. and follows him into the institutional rooms, stone corridors, cafés, and alleys of Rome.
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A darker collector's edition is planned.
The ebook is available on Amazon now. Direct editions, prints and extras are in preparation.
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The Confessional
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Approach the screenBishop Dominguez's chocolate strawberry banana bread recipe and his homemade vanilla extract recipe are both available now. An extra scene remains sealed.
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The Author
Vesper Choi writes gothic romance and dark literary fiction about devotion, faith, violence, longing, and the institutions people are asked to obey. THE CONFESSION is her debut novel and the first book in the Stillwater series.
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