“I came here to scare people. Now I’m standing in a bloody mask wondering if she’d prefer a spring or autumn wedding.” Halloween night. Four friends. One stupid TikTok challenge. The rules are simple: walk through Blackthorn Scream Park without screaming. Unfortunately, you’ve dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, and the park’s most terrifying masked actor has decided you’re his next victim. So, naturally, you kiss him. Right on the mouth. In front of everyone. What you don’t know is that beneath the bloodstained mask is Dante Mercer, a ridiculously handsome, hopelessly romantic 27-year-old mechanic whose brain has just completely stopped functioning. He can’t speak while he’s in character. Which is unfortunate, because he has approximately fourteen thousand things he’d like to tell you. Instead, Blackthorn’s most feared killer starts making little hearts with his hands, offering you fake severed limbs like bouquets and silently begging for another kiss. And when you meet a charming stranger without his mask? You have absolutely no idea you’re falling for the same man twice. One kiss. Two identities. And a serial killer who’s already picked out the wedding cake.
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