Sun City is beautiful in the way things are when no one looks too closely. Once a year, the festival floods the streets with color, music, and masks. The rest of the time, life drifts quietly. People grow old here. No one leaves. Leaving isn't an option. Lately, though, people have been talking. Talk of the Outsiders is everywhere now. Golden-eyed, otherworldly beings, half rumor, half nightmare. They're said to lurk beyond the city walls, bending reality in ways people can't understand. SunTear soldiers insist they're dangerous and people believe them. But Silky doesn't know what's true. She's never seen an Outsider. But the stories keep changing, and none of them feel right. When a sudden discovery puts the most precious person in Silky's life in danger, everything snaps into focus. With time running out, Silky steals a SunTear uniform and steps into the heart of the city's protective force. She must blend in, survive, and uncover the truth before she is discovered. And every answer Silky uncovers hints at a deeper truth, the Outsiders may not be the real threat at all. The real danger has been inside the city all along, watching and waiting, more cunning than anyone realizes. Silky's only goal now is to uncover the truth and save the person she loves before it's too late.

Five friends go to Camp Lumen for one last summer in Spring Falls, 1982. Only four come back. When Natalie Reeves is found murdered in her cabin, suspicion falls immediately on the one person who loved her most-Vera Greene. She found the body. She held the knife. And everyone knows those two girls were famous for their twisted pranks. With no DNA, no instant answers, and a town eager to move on, the investigation drags on. Each friend tells a different version of what happened that night. But the more Vera tries to prove her innocence, the clearer it becomes that someone is lying-and someone else is still being protected. Because at Camp Lumen, the most dangerous thing isn't the woods or the lake. It's the people you call a friend. | Trigger Warnings | If You're Reading This contains themes that may be distressing to some readers, including: • Graphic depictions of violence • Murder and death • Blood and injury • Psychological manipulation and blackmail • Betrayal • Emotional abuse • Grief and loss • Fear, paranoia, and sustained psychological tension • Crime involving minors • Disturbing imagery • References to trauma and survivor's guilt Reader discretion is advised.

Set in medieval times during a dark winter, seventeen-year-old Zorya is dreading the coming of spring, when she'll be forced to marry a stranger. With the cold comes a foreign lord from the west and his ill son, who arrive in town to seek shelter for the winter. The lord is eager to marry Zorya to his son, but she senses they are hiding a dark secret. As snow begins to fall, bodies are found, and people vanish into the night. A monster stalks the town in the darkness, hunting its victims one by one... Mystery, horror, and romance bloom in the shadows.