The tenants of Belmonte Tenement know something’s wrong they just don’t know how deep it goes. Doors slide out of place. Neighbors vanish without a sound. And if you pause long enough, the walls start whispering back.
In this crumbling high-rise, nothing holds steady not the shadows, not the lives inside. A fractured relationship, a missing sibling, regrets that won’t quiet down every apartment hides a story, and every story feeds what waits beneath.
The tenement isn’t haunted. It’s hungry.
As the building closes in, memories twist, and reality bends toward guilt. Rooms reflect what you swore you buried. Hallways circle back to moments you never escaped.
They all moved in hoping for a fresh start. But the tenement keeps a ledger of who you were before and it doesn’t forgive.
When the mirrors show someone standing behind you, who will you see staring back?
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This novel is part of SHADOWKIN: The Shadow of Death, a chilling series of interconnected standalone paranormal thrillers, where every shadow hides a secret and every story brings you closer to the darkness.
In the hidden alleys of forgotten towns and the broken edges of memory, the Shadowkin wait. They’re not just creatures in the dark they’re shaped from guilt, grief, and the secrets we can’t bury.
SHADOWKIN: The Shadow of Death drags you into a world where walls breathe, shadows whisper, and silence presses like a weight. Each tale begins with a quiet unease and ends with a truth you don’t want to face: the Shadowkin aren’t strangers at all, but the pieces of ourselves we fear the most.
Enter these standalone stories where every truth cuts deeper, and every ending opens another door.
