Every century, creatures return in the night and those they take are never seen again. Fourteen year old Ares has always believed his parents died to those monsters. Raised by the woman he calls his grandmother, he thinks he is just another orphan of the terror that haunts their world. But when the creatures attack his village and force everyone to flee, Ares begins to realize the truth is far more dangerous than he imagined. As ancient horrors draw closer, whispers of a forgotten past resurface: a stolen kingdom, a fallen royal bloodline, and a throne meant to stay hidden. Long ago, dragons protected humanity until humans betrayed them, shattering the fragile balance that kept the darkness at bay. Now the creatures are searching. Not for villages. For him. Hunted by monsters, pursued by enemies of a lost crown, and burdened with a destiny he never asked for, Ares must uncover who he really is before the truth destroys him and everyone he loves. Because the throne was stolen. The heir was hidden. And fate will not stay buried forever.

𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢! 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧. 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦. Josephine 'Josie' Herrera was at the peak of her career at only twenty-five-years old. She was famed for the theatre stage, where the dazzling spotlight had begun to burn a hole right through her. Car radios oozed her voice inescapably, turning the world into her stadium. Ticket sales boomed and theater seats sold out wherever this woman was set to go. 1990s, New York City was at her lithe fingertips. People knew her. Audiences adored her. But after all was said and done-when the playbills were signed, when the tour was over-what was left? Josie was stuck. Each day looped into the next, as all fine details were lost to the cacophony of her life. Nothing seemed to matter. She needed a change. She needed to disappear from the view sycophants who craved the artistry of her flesh; from the press-circuit buzz that gnawed her character down to the bone. Simply put, she was in a catatonic state of mind. The remedy? She had to shake things up.

Cami Cortez is an aspiring travel influencer, and when she is invited to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and collaborate with one of the best content creators in the game, she jumps at the chance to network and meet other like-minded influencers. She soon finds that not everything is as it seems. Not all that glitters is gold.

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me- and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy

In the shadowed halls of Briarhaven Conservatory, one witch is missing, and another is dead-but only one of them seems to matter to everyone else. It's the spring of 2002, and twenty-year-old college students Sloane Beauvais and Maeve Hamada just want to avoid Briarhaven's suffocating magical elite and the haunted corridors of their campus. But when a friend begged for their help, the girls put aside their doubts and decide to investigate. On the surface, everything looks the same: the college students are cruel, the cafeteria food is overpriced, and the teachers don't care. But when one of Sloane's former classmates is found suspended above her dorm bed, and another vanishes without a trace, Briarhaven descends into chaos. Wealthy warlocks pull their children from class, the media swarms the school, and the truth hides beneath layers of gossip and dark magic. Haunted by guilt, Maeve and Sloane take matters into their own hands, navigating secretive cliques, cryptic rituals, and hidden alliances that could turn on them at any moment. Don't get them wrong - they couldn't care less about their former classmates or professors. But if solving the mystery means uncovering who kidnapped their friend, then so be it.

In the humid, moss-choked darkness of 2003 Louisiana, the St. Roch Syndicate dispatches its most reluctant assets to a derelict summer camp deep in the Atchafalaya Basin. Tess Beauvais, a twenty-three-year-old sorceress drowning in student debt, and Anaïs Chen, a twenty-two-year-old jaded medium, are tasked with a seemingly simple job: retrieve the lost research notes of a vanished Syndicate scientist. Their mission unravels when they cross paths with brothers, Rafe and Frazier. After bailing their father's friends out of jail, twenty-three-year-old Rafe and twenty-year-old Frazier devise a devious plan to get their mercenary patriarch out of the country - only to be ensnared in a nightmare far beyond his depth. The camp is ruled by the Vigneauxs - an unhinged brood obsessed with the grotesque, who breed unnatural beasts in the wetlands, collect bones for unspeakable experiments, and feed trespassers to the horrors lurking beneath the cypress trees. Now Tess, Anais, Rafe and Frazier are marked as the next main course. With their luck running out and monsters closing in, the quartet are forced into a bitter alliance. Each must decide how much of their soul they're willing to trade - whether to outrun the camp's hungry shadows, or become something monstrous themselves. In the end, only the land will remember what is sacrificed to survive a season of sour earth.

It's spring 1997, nineteen-year-old Cairo Beauvais is a master of the hustle. Between off-Broadway auditions and slaying creatures that go bump in the Bayou, Cairo's never missed a rent check. But when a job in Baton Rouge turns into a bloodbath, Cairo is tasked to go to Lafayette as a glorified babysitter for a restless sixteen-year-old socialite. At the same time, Roman Delacroix, a nineteen-year-old reanimated corpse, is trying desperately not to exist. Resurrected under circumstances he doesn't fully understand, Roman keeps a low profile by renting a room in a boarding house. He applies for a night watchman job at the Port of New Orleans and attempts to be normal, but all that collapses the night he hears screams coming from the Devereux estate. Against his better judgment, Roman intervenes - drawing Cairo into his orbit and entangling them both in the Devereux family's secrets. Don't get them wrong; the last thing they want is to help people fix their mistakes. But as the house begins to reveal what it was built to contain, exposing the truth may be the only way either of them walks away with their body - and dignity - intact.

Mintea Hulland survived something she can barely remember. From the ringing in her damaged ear, the shadow that won't leave her alone and a therapist she'd rather strangle than speak to, silence has never felt so loud. But someone out there remembers exactly what happened that night. And when they decide to reveal the truth to the young woman, the wounds of others choking in the smoke whisper something too inhumane to repeat without losing your mind entirely. . --------------------- ONC prompt# 80 inspo. »Monsters don't live under our beds. They live in the recesses of our minds.« (Variation of Edgar Allen Poe's famous quote)

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