All he wanted was to disappear. What he found wouldn't let him go. Humanity clings to survival in fortified cities, learning to live beside the horrors that slipped in from another plane. Monsters now walk freely among the ruins of the old civilisation. For a runaway boy scraping by on the streets, danger is nothing new. Hunted by violent men and ignored by a society too busy surviving, he's learned to trust no one. But when he crosses paths with a strange, otherworldly being - one unlike any he's seen before - his life takes a turn for the surreal. The creature is powerful, unpredictable, and completely alien in thought. It breaks boundaries as easily as bodies, and the boy wants nothing more than to be rid of it. But fate - or an unbreakable, incomprehensible will - keeps pulling them together. As tension builds and an uneasy bond begins to form, a far greater danger looms. And it's not from the monsters outside the walls. The story in full, including the explicit excerpts: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5WL39BL (chapters 1 R - 12 BC) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYT3Q7H7 (chapters 13 R - 25 R) please leave reviews!

Blair Grant is an amateur criminal profiler who is obsessed with his handsome neighbor, Florence Hill. But when the fabric of their imaginary relationship begins to unravel and Blair decides the only way out is to kill the object of his desire, he uncovers something more sinister beneath Florence's million-dollar smile; a serial killer they call the Birdeater. **Thank you, everyone, for almost 10k reads! You are all amazing! Your comments bring me so much joy. YES, there is a sequel planned and it is coming soon! Thank you for everything!** **I have paperback and hardcover copies for sale, if you are interested just message me!**

"Keep it safe." Alexandr whispered, hot breath splashing onto Theo's face. Just one inch and those lips would touch his face, gently. A finger swept a wet strand of hair from Theo's face carefully, and Alexandr pressed his thumb to the flesh under his right eye, tightening second after second with a cruel pressure, "Be careful who you make friends with." Theo slammed his hand into the man's broad chest, and Alexandr stumbled backwards a few steps, burning hand detaching from his face. The man's grinding gaze lifted towards him, and a deliberate smile spread over his thin lips, stretching them up and up, shrouding his sculpted face in a warped glory of beauty. - He'll learn to only look for him, There was none of the usual ceremony of blood baths and O Fortuna! There was only the simple click. And it was done. He chained this man to him. And even though he'd done this for every pet before, something became different. The air? The magnetic field around them? Something had shifted and the leash burnt heavy in his hand. It felt like the beginning of... an end. - Theodore Harrow thought all he had to do was wait for the game to end, but when he meets the capture targets, all he wants to do is run away. Stay sane? They could take his body, devour his heart, crush his life, but they couldn't take away his sanity. That was the last line, and if that too falls away... he'd lose his soul. A virtual reality dating sim and Otome game is not so cool when a) All the capture targets are men, and you're a straight guy b) Everyone who has come out of the game has become mentally ill c) None of the characters are sane Cover image does not belong to me, it was taken from Pinterest; all credit goes to 백수 who is the artist. Cover edits made by me. Story belongs to me. 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: #𝟏 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝟐𝟏/𝟏𝟏/𝟐𝟎 #2 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒t #