“My Quiet Upiór” is a 22,200-word paranormal gothic romance novella packed with grumpy/sunshine tension and "touch her and die" devotion. Set in a crumbling Polish mountain sanatorium where mineral springs steam through cracked tile and the forest presses against rain-streaked windows, this story delivers a burned-out heroine, a silent and dangerously obsessive hero, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. Perfect for readers who want their romance dark, atmospheric, and impossible to forget.

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Aldona fled Solny Zdrój seven years ago, convinced the mountains were too small for her ambitions. Now she's back—exhausted, single, and working at the “Natura” Sanatorium, a decaying relic of a gentler century. She tells herself this is temporary. A reset. A chance to breathe brine-scented air and heal strangers' bodies until she figures out what she wants.

Then she meets Tymon.

He works the sanatorium's bar with underwater slowness, his skin pale as candle wax, his eyes the color of lake water under storm clouds. He doesn't flirt. He doesn't smile. He simply hands her coffee each morning, their fingers brushing for half a second—and Aldona feels more seen in that half-second than she has in years.

She starts dreaming of him. Starts feeling watched when he's not there. Starts touching herself at night while imagining his careful hands, and somehow—impossibly—she swears she feels him respond.

Tymon knows exactly what he is: an upiór, a creature of Slavic folklore, dead but walking, hungry but restrained. Every cough scatters sparks. Every moment near her threatens his fragile control. He has spent four years building careful walls. But Aldona's warmth calls to something in him that should have died.

When a predatory developer corners her in an abandoned bathhouse, Tymon's restraint shatters. Frost spreads across the walls where he walks. The temperature plummets. And the developer runs—but not before realizing exactly what kind of creature just threatened him.

Now Aldona knows the truth. And she has a choice: run from the impossible man who haunts her nights, or walk toward him. Either option could destroy her. But only one offers a love that transcends death itself.

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Dark atmosphere. Forbidden longing. A hero who will ruin you for everyone else. “My Quiet Upiór” delivers the obsessive, slow-burn paranormal romance you've been craving. Set inside a sanatorium that breathes with its own haunted life, this novella pairs a burned-out heroine with a silent, dangerous man who shouldn't exist—and who definitely shouldn't want her. Perfect for readers who love monster romance, gothic settings, and love stories that cost something real.

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