On the summer of 1976, in the once quiet town of New Benfer in southern Indiana, horrific events unfold one night after Harmony invites three strangers into her home. W A R N I N G : A B E R R A N T B E H A V I O R , B L O O D Y A N D G R I S L Y D E T A I L S , S T R O N G S E X U A L I T Y , L A N G U A G E A N D D R U G U S E .

He runs his fingers through her hair and tugs on it. "You're my doll," he says as he breathes her in. "You need me. You're mine to play with. You're mine. Without me, you're nothing." What happens when he one day disappears and the monsters buried deep in the basement begin scratching the walls and howling her name in the night? Why does her mother force big yellow pills down her throat, saying it's for the best? Why isn't she allowed in the basement? Who's in the basement? What's in the basement? Who is the little boy with sunken eyes and hollow cheeks, crying for his mother? Tick tock, Monique. The monsters are crawling up the basement. And they're coming for you.

Mania...obsessive love...the type that leads to madness. Clemence unknowingly becomes the object of obsession for her handsome but stern new History professor Leon and her whole world is turned upside down. Trying to navigate a dangerous romance along with increasingly fragile friendships, Clemence soon becomes entangled in a web of lies and danger, finding out Leon isn't the man she thought he was.

Bo had always been seen as a freak. He lived his life on the outskirts, never fitting one particular mold, always too much of this, always too little of that. But he was content with himself and his wild mind and he didn't think anything would be able to change that. Mina lives on the outskirts too, isolates herself, walls up, head down, unapproachable and often seen as aloof, she sticks to the mold her parents wish her to be. She didn't think anything would be able to change that. When their paths collide and their worlds are shaken, Mina finds herself questioning the very foundations of her life, especially as a series of dark secrets start to unfold...

Melissa Crawford thinks she's just a regular teenage girl. She goes to school. She has friends, boy problems, homework...you know, the typical teenage angst. But she couldn't be more wrong, for Melissa Crawford is not a mortal. Her adoptive mortal mother refused to give her up and hired a witch to erase the enchanting Faery child's memory, not realizing that things aren't that simple. You see, when she was a little girl, Melissa promised herself forever to her Leannan Sidhe (mate), a Fae Prince, and a promise to Fae is sacred. When the Fae Prince comes back to claim what's his, nothing will get in his way. "Mortals are so arrogant. So utterly narcissistic to think that they are the only intelligence in this world, to believe their realm is the only realm, their way is the only way. "Many of you believe us fairies only exist in little kids' fairy tales. We are so much more than that. We exist, living in the Realm just a blink away from yours. A few wrong turns in the park or the forest and you're there. We sometimes walk among you, and you're not even aware of it. Believe me, we exist. Across the globe, your kind calls us and our realm by different names...but as William Shakespeare once said- a rose by any other name..."