What Death Forgets
Thea Verdone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
4.33
· 3 ratings · 488 pages · Published: 01 Oct 2025
When up-and-coming artist, Asher Blakely, is invited to compete for a prestigious art mentorship hosted by his hero, the reclusive celebrity artist Leviathan Marks, he’ll do whatever it takes to win. Because Asher isn’t just any fan. He’s spent hours of pain and thousands of dollars turning Leviathan’s art into tattoos on his skin.
But the more Asher gets to know the mercurial Leviathan, the more he starts to fear that maybe he never should have met his hero, that maybe Leviathan is no hero at all.
Lev Marks collects people like paintings and he’ll stop at nothing to add Asher Blakely to his halls. But after luring Asher to his ancestral castle perched atop a tidal island, Lev starts to have second thoughts.
Because Asher’s art is a mirror showing Lev all the worst parts of himself, and he can’t risk his secrets getting out.
What Death Forgets is an MM modern gothic romance featuring
-master painter x art prodigy protégé
-hurt / comfort
-anxiety and ADHD rep
-touch-starved MC
-angst
-age gap
-forced proximity
-creepy castle
-limerence to insta-love
-mutual obsession
-spicy
Perfect for fans of Saltburn, Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, Sierra Simone's Thornchapel series, and A Picture of Dorian Gray.
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- lgbtq+ 3
- dark 3
- men loving men 3
- paranormal 3
- mystery 3
- suspense 2
- angst 2
- crime 2
- age gap 2
- ghosts 2
- supernatural 1
- gothic 1
- steamy 1
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- adult fiction 1
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