The Forbidden Moon by Claudetta Aurelia
Space Horror / Dark Romance Novella
Fugitives bound by love and a dangerous secret, Mireya and Orin flee through the endless night of space, hunted by an empire that will stop at nothing to claim what they carry. Their prize, the Prometheus Serum, glows with a promise of salvation and a curse older than the stars.
When their battered ship crashes upon a cursed moon whispered of in forbidden legends, every shadow conceals a memory of ruin. Beneath alien skies, a temple still stands, its walls alive with blasphemous fire, its worshippers broken and beautiful in their madness. There, the Star Hunger waits, whispering promises of rapture and rebirth.
In this place of dread and desire, passion becomes peril. Mireya is drawn to the Hunger's radiance, even as Orin clings to her with desperate devotion. Love and betrayal entwine in a dance as fragile as it is fierce, while the cosmos itself trembles with the awakening of something vast and merciless.
The Forbidden Moon is a tale of cosmic horror and doomed romance, infused with a the lush, mythic voice. For readers who crave both the lurid excess of vintage sci fi covers and the haunting beauty of decadent prose, this is a story where desire and dread walk hand in hand, and the stars themselves bear witness to a love too bright to survive.