Twenty-seven years ago, the Losers Club believed they destroyed the thing that haunted their town forever. Time passed. Lives were lived. Some were lost. And the past was buried where it belonged. Or so they thought. Mel Denbrough never planned to come back. At twenty years old, she leaves the city behind to care for her aging father, Bill Denbrough-one of the men who once faced the horror beneath Derry and survived. Mel is kind. Beautiful. Gentle in a way that feels out of place in a town that remembers fear better than love. That's why it notices her. Pennywise doesn't come back for Bill. He comes back for her. Through hallucinations, whispered threats, and a dangerously human disguise, the thing that feeds on fear becomes obsessed with what it cannot immediately break. Mel is frightened-but not enough. Innocent-but not weak. And her lack of terror both enrages and intrigues the monster watching her. As Derry closes in and the line between safety and danger blurs, Mel must navigate new friendships, secret admirers, and a presence that wants to corrupt her soul as revenge for her father's survival. Because angels don't belong in Derry. And Pennywise has always loved ruining beautiful things.