The Heart of the Midnight Show

Paris, 1900. By day, you fold your bones into impossible shapes for the Circus Méridien. By night, you are the Shadow, a grave-robber selling fresh corpses to Dr. Moreau's anatomy students. When a letter arrives, written in your own handwriting, warning of a murder at the Exposition Universelle, you are drawn into a hunt for a mad anatomist. The countdown is absolute: by midnight, a virgin's heart will be cut from her living chest. As the hours bleed away, you find yourself chasing a phantom through the glittering chaos of the World's Fair, a phantom who knows your every move, your every secret, and your every fear. The trail leads you to a mirrored operating theatre, a stage for a monstrous performance. But the final reveal is not the face of the killer, but the truth of your own diseased future, and the body of the girl who was never as alive as you believed.