He rang the bell for absolution. The frost answered instead.

Graduate student Elias Greer came to a ruined mountain monastery for solitude, research, and escape from his past. But Saint Agatha’s is more than ivy and stone. It is a Veiled Place—where echoes speak truths not yet confessed, and the cold itself listens.

Veyr, the frost wight of the belfry, has lingered for a century—starved for warmth, aching for devotion. His presence moves through the air like breath, his touch lingering in the frost that coils across mirrors and skin.

Elias should resist.
Instead, he kneels in confession.

As the bells awaken, Elias must decide whether to return to his mortal life, or surrender to a love that claims him with ice, breath, and devotion deeper than the grave.

✨ The Cold in the Belfry is Book Two in The Hollow Veil Monster Novellas: standalone gothic MM monster romances where broken men find themselves in the arms of something otherworldly. Expect:

🕯️ Haunted monastery & frozen gothic atmosphere
👻 A spectral frost wight with eyes like winter stars
🔥 Explicit on-page intimacy (breath play, temperature play, spectral touch)
💔 Emotional catharsis, queer healing, and transformation

For readers of darkly sensual queer romance who crave monsters, folklore, and heat that chills as much as it burns.