Title: The Monarch Butterfly
Author: HigherMagic
Artist: khalexx
Rating: Explicit
Length: 32,000 words
Pairings: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter (background Alana Bloom/Margot Verger)
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, canon-typical violence, past MCD, really graphic murder scenes and fight scenes, obsessive behavior (not Hannigram)
In a world where people stop aging at 25 until they find their soulmate, Will and Alana are roommates. Will is a writer, using his time served at the FBI to inspire his stories. But his muse has run dry, and in its place are nightmares of another life he doesn’t remember living. He meets Hannibal, who has aged from a past life with a soulmate taken from him too soon. If a soulmate dies of anything except natural causes, they are reincarnated into a new body. He remembers Will, would know him anywhere, and Will is quickly sucked into the mystery of his own murder. As well as that, there’s a serial killer, the Monarch, trying to catch his attention, and as Will recovers his memories, it becomes obvious that their lives, both past and present, are all deeply intertwined.
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