When the Last Bell Rings
An interactive gothic romantasy · with Finn Solenne
The heir you were raised to hate pulls you out of a flooding cathedral, your blood wakes a bell that has not rung since your mother died, and within the hour your father wants him dead.
Your choices shape how Finn responds.
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- Love interest
- Finn Solenne
- Genre
- Gothic romantasy
- Length
- ~1½ hours
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About When the Last Bell Rings
You were raised on one rule: hate the house of Solenne, and its heir most of all.
Then the cathedral floods, the water closes over your head, and it's Finn Solenne who drags you out — warm hands, reckless grin, entirely unbothered by whose daughter you are.
Your blood wakes a bell that hasn't rung since your mother died.
Within the hour, your father wants him dead.
And the boy you were raised to hate has just saved your life.
A taste of the story
From Chapter 1
A hand closes around mine.
The stranger in white pulls me backward just as a marble saint crashes down where I was standing. He does not ask permission before wrapping an arm around my waist and dragging me toward the choir stairs.
He says it against my ear, breathless and somehow still smiling.
STRANGER
“You can slap me later. Please make it dramatic. I respond well to attention.”
I should hate that I laugh. I laugh anyway, a short, shocked sound, with seawater around my ankles.
Then the wall behind us cracks open, and the Black Tide comes through it.
A column of black water rears out of the stone, full of silver light and drowned faces.
The stranger turns, raises his bare hand, and gold fire races across his skin.
Only Solenne blood can pull fire out of a ward. And only one Solenne in this city has the face from the portraits on my father’s war-room wall.
He looks at me as his mask falls away.
“Ah,” Finn Solenne says softly. “This is going to be awkward.”
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Questions
Is When the Last Bell Rings free to read?
Yes. Chapter 1 of When the Last Bell Rings is free, and Chapters 1–3 are free for 2 stories a month with a free account. To finish it, unlock the whole story for $2.99 — one payment, yours to keep, and if you want every story, you can read them all FREE for 7 days, then $9.99 a month.
Who is the love interest in When the Last Bell Rings?
Finn Solenne. When the Last Bell Rings is an interactive gothic romantasy where your choices shape what happens with Finn, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is When the Last Bell Rings?
An interactive gothic romantasy built on he falls first, jealous hero and enemies to lovers. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is When the Last Bell Rings?
About 1½ hours of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.