Kiss Me Like Confession

Kiss Me Like Confession By C.K Hartwell

Marian has spent her career inside abandoned places — chapels, rectories, archives — where the past feels safer than the present. She doesn't restore them so much as commune with them. She trusts ruins more than people. Ruins don't pretend.

When she pries up the chapel floorboards and finds a woman buried beneath — curled, veiled, hands folded around a rosary still warm to the touch — she knows she should report it. Walk away. Be professional.

She stays.

That night, something asks her permission. And Marian, for the first time in longer than she can remember, says yes.

Lush, slow-burning, and deeply felt. A gothic short read about loneliness, desire, and what it means to finally be seen.

For adult readers. Contains explicit content.