The Veltet Hour – Kobo eBook

Some dresses don’t just make you beautiful. They make you wanted and they collect on the wanting.

Naomi Crane restores vintage clothing in New Orleans, bringing dead dresses back to life. In the costume room of a decaying theatre, she finds a 1920s black velvet gown sealed in a trunk that has been locked for sixty-one years. The moment she puts it on, she understands why: whoever wears the gown becomes irresistible.

Rooms turn toward her. Men forget what they were saying. And in the dark, the wanting feels like being touched by someone who knows exactly where to touch.

But the gown belonged to Delphine Laurent, a jazz singer who died on stage in 1927 and Delphine wants her body back. Each night Naomi wears the gown, a little more of her is replaced by the singer: her reflection falls a beat behind, her handwriting leans the wrong way, a dead woman’s mole blooms on her skin.

The gown does not just seduce. It feeds on desire. And at the theatre’s reopening gala, with two hundred people wanting her at once, Naomi will have to choose: finish the dead singer’s unfinished song, or lose herself to the velvet hour forever.

A sultry, slow-burning tale of desire, obsession, and a dress that loves being worn a little too much.

An erotic horror novel by Flor Nocturna.