The Shadow

For thirty years, Ella has lived with a shadow no one else could see.
Hat Man has watched over her since childhood, appearing in the darkness whenever sleep paralysis leaves her helpless. He has always been familiar. Protective. Safe, in his own impossible way. Until he stops simply watching.
As the distance between them disappears, their connection becomes physical, obsessive, and dangerous. Hat Man is possessive, jealous, and intensely protective, and Ella is beginning to realize she doesn't want him to stop. But when secrets from her family's past begin to surface, Ella discovers their connection may have started long before she was born. A mysterious bargain, a terrifying entity named Vareth, and the sins of her ancestor Silas Mercer are tied to a debt that has finally come due. Now, the shadow who wants her may also be the only thing standing between Ella and the thing that believes she already beologns to him.
The line between protection and possession was never meant to disappear.