SPECTRAL EVIDENCE MYSTERIES • BOOK 3

Séance in Silhouette

By Lucian Haverly

In Paris, some shadows remember the dead.

Paris, 1888. When silhouette artist Marcel Fournier dies during a private séance, Dr. Alistair Finch sees the case as another example of fraud, fear, and human weakness dressed up as the supernatural. A British physician with a reputation for exposing spiritualist tricks, Alistair believes every haunting leaves behind a mechanism, a motive, or a lie.

Étienne Duval refuses to let Marcel’s death be dismissed so easily. Marcel had been terrified long before that final séance, speaking of shadows that moved where no shadow should and a summons he could not escape. Étienne loved him in secret, and grief sharpens his need for answers into something fierce enough to challenge Alistair’s certainty.

Their uneasy investigation draws them through the occult underworld of late-Victorian Paris, from velvet-draped séance rooms and candlelit theatres to hidden records, dangerous patrons, and rituals designed to turn fear into obedience. Alistair brings evidence and reason. Étienne brings belief, memory, and a willingness to follow the darkness where logic alone may not reach.

As doubt becomes its own kind of evidence, suspicion gives way to trust, and trust becomes a risk neither man can afford. To uncover what happened to Marcel, Alistair and Étienne must confront not only fraud, conspiracy, and possible haunting, but the forbidden longing growing between them in a city built on secrets.

Séance in Silhouette is a gothic historical MM mystery set in 1888 Paris, blending paranormal suspense, skeptic-and-believer tension, slow-burn queer romance, occult conspiracy, and shadow-haunted emotional stakes