sexytrashraccoon
In a city where magic hums beneath neon lights and monsters live quietly among humans, four young paranormals accidentally unlock a curse older than vampirism itself. When a cemetery party goes violently wrong, witch Esly Nightwind traps a haunted locket inside a warded box-only for it to be stolen by a luck-drunk thief.
Now the locket, once worn by the first vampire's doomed lover, is awake again... and it's hungry. It twists desire into obsession, love into violence, and its history is soaked in centuries of murders-including those committed by Julius Hawthorne's own father. Julius, a newly-made warlock terrified of the power in his bloodline, finds himself entangled in visions of fire, death, and a legacy he never asked for.
Joined by Esly, her mermaid best friend Finnly, and her perfectionist twin brother Mage, the group reluctantly teams up with Lazaro Vale-a sharp-tongued vampire descendant of the first monster ever cursed. Together, they're pulled into a supernatural hunt across spell-soaked districts, cursed archives, and hidden magical black markets.
But something worse is watching from the shadows: a dragon in human disguise, waiting for the locket to reopen a gateway to the Damned Ones.
With a violent thief growing more corrupted by the day, long-buried secrets rising from the ashes, and Julius's control slipping, the group must uncover the truth behind the locket's creation before its curse tears them-and the city-apart.
Love was the locket's first victim.
Now it wants more.