Love & Monsters
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Last published Sun, Jan 18, 2026
When DAPHNE HARGROVE moves to Hawkins, Indiana from sunny California she soon hears about the curse that the Hawkins residents say lies upon the town. All while trying to navigate her new high school and her new life she meets some new people along the way. STEVE HARRINGTON, the king of Hawkins High, slowly starts to learn about his arch-nemesis's sister and after an unlikely encounter ends up getting Daphne pulled into an interdimensional battle with the evil in Hawkins. Come to find out the curse is real and it won't stop until all of Hawkins is taken.
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