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In the suffocating silence after his wife's death, celebrated violinist Julian is a ghost of his former self, unable to touch his instrument or escape the hollow echo of his grief. His salvation arrives in a series of mysterious crates—an inheritance from a shadowy uncle he barely knew.

Inside are musical instruments unlike any he has ever seen. A cello of blood-red wood, a viola with porous, organic strings, and a violin carved from a single, polished piece of human bone. They are beautiful. They are monstrous. And they do not play music—they play death.

Each instrument is a fossilized record of a soul's final moment: the peaceful sigh of release, the frantic terror of a murder, the searing, erotic ecstasy of a fever dream. For Julian, a man numb to the world, the chance to feel anything is an irresistible siren song. He becomes addicted to the symphony of stolen endings, a connoisseur of the most intimate moments of strangers' lives, guided by his enigmatic and sinister new mentor, Alistair.

But this art has a vicious price, and Julian soon discovers that the instruments were not merely found—they were commissioned. To create his collection, Alistair didn't need donors. He needed victims. And now, having refined their terrible songs, Julian is being groomed to become the final, perfect instrument in Alistair's macabre orchestra.

To survive, Julian must compose a music he has long forgotten. He must fight a symphony of death with a single, fragile note of life. But when the final curtain rises, will he have the strength to silence the music, or will he become its most beautiful, everlasting note?

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