Description

In the Unsleeping City, beauty is an arrangement and murder is an art form.

Elliot Zalsha—mob boss, psychic weapon, and reluctant heir to a god’s obsession—thought he’d buried the past. But when a girl is found posed like a sculpture in the Rain Quarter—with her lips sewn shut and a letter sealed in her blood—it becomes clear: someone remembers him far too well.

Now, Elliot is being hunted by a killer who doesn’t just imitate his past—they know it.

Partnered with a too-curious stranger named Kerr, whose smile is too bright and footsteps too quiet, Elliot is drawn into a game of mirrors and mutilation—one orchestrated by The Savant, a serial killer with a fondness for theatrical cruelty and a personal vendetta.

But deeper still lies the god called Smile, who waits in blood and shadow for Elliot to fall again. And this time, he's not alone.

Velvet & Viscera is a noir-fantasy thriller about intimacy, identity, and the long echo of a childhood shaped by monsters.