Mist-Carried

Calla Saint is the internet’s favorite kind of miracle: a “Glow Gospel” lifestyle icon with perfect skin, perfect captions, and followers who leave offerings like she’s holy. Aphra Vale—beauty mogul, pop-culture queen, and self-declared timeless icon—calls it theft. When a tabloid prophecy brands Calla “destined for a monster,” sponsors panic, the narrative turns feral, and a scandal erupts so flawlessly it feels scripted.

Then a supernatural mist carries Calla out of Los Angeles and into Northern New Mexico—into a hidden mountain estate that shouldn’t exist, run by warm voices and unseen hands.
Her new lover is tender, funny, and impossible…but he will only meet her in darkness, and his rules are absolute: no face, no recording, no true name, no phone beyond the gate.

At first, secrecy feels like freedom. Then the tabloids call him a predator. Calla’s curiosity snaps, a forbidden flashlight becomes a betrayal, and her refuge vanishes overnight. Now her brand is ash, her name is a punchline, and Aphra offers “forgiveness” with a smile that cuts. To earn love in daylight, Calla must survive three cruelly modern labors—data, violence, and an underworld built from buried tech—without letting the world turn her into worship again.