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Confess

A Pitch Black Romance Novella

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Confess

By: Athena Voss
Narrated by: John Sender
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The silence inside St. Jude was never peaceful.

It was a burden, heavy with the chill of centuries-old sins.

For twenty-year-old Liliana, the church is no refuge. It is a gilded cage. As an orphan of the parish, her life is built on prayers, lowered eyes, and the iron duty to preserve the purity that has been drilled into her since childhood. She is a hollow shell— until Father Thomas enters the stage.

Thomas is not a kind shepherd of souls. He is authority made flesh in a black clerical collar, massive and unyielding as the granite of the church walls. His voice is not comfort, but a dark echo that keeps Liliana awake at night and awakens a desire inside her for which there are no words.

Inside the confessional, separated only by a thin wooden grille, a dangerous game of guilt and penance begins.

Thomas does not only see the girl begging for forgiveness.

He sees the offering waiting to be laid upon his altar.

He promises her no mercy.

Only discipline.

He does not want to save her.

He wants to break her.

Liliana knows she is crossing the line into damnation the moment she takes the first step into his private world. But as her world of prayers shatters around her, she discovers one terrifying truth:

Obedience can be the sweetest salvation.

Deep. Dark. Religious taboo.

Are you ready to confess your sins?

©2026 Athena Voss (P)2026 Athena Voss
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