Ash and Ellie have been inseparable since children. But when they secretly witness the brutal murder of their two high school classmates, they break apart--for good.
Ten years later, Ellie and her roommate start experiencing hauntings, including Ellie receiving messaging from the people claiming to be her two murdered friends. At the same time, and unbeknownst to her, Ash starts to receive similar messages. Under pressure, Ellie lets her roommate film everything, which slowly brings Ash and Ellie together again.
While their hardened feelings for each other still linger, the sightings of their dead friends only grow more frequent and violent. Worse, when Ash and Ellie dig deeper, they discover they are not the only ones searching for the source of the hauntings. It's not long before they find themselves entangled with a dangerous man who is very much alive--and obsessed with capturing the two friends for his own unknown reasons.
As they run for their lives, Ellie and Ash work to unravel the mystery surrounding the hauntings only to discover their supernatural origins and the other world that comes with them.
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Featuring compelling villains and a tumultuous love story, this series blends dark urban fantasy with occult horror for a hauntingly charged mystery that's fraught with menace.
Author's Note: This book is intended for adult readers and contains mature and explicit themes, including graphic sex, language, and gore. It is the first part in a five-book series that follows the same characters, best read in order. There will be a happily-ever-after, but it will be a slow-burn, darker journey to get there, and the protagonists are deeply flawed, developing and growing throughout the story. If you are a reader with specific triggers or sensitivities common to the dark romance genre, PLEASE heed the author's note at the beginning of this book.
With a new name and new life, Nathan must learn to fit in at an Academy of the Feral Investigation Bureau, or risk being sent back to prison.
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Escaping prison was only the beginning for inmate C41. Now on the run and going by Nathan, he's enrolled in an American Academy for training agents and joins the Feral Investigation Bureau, charged with hunting down criminals and sending them to the same place he just escaped. But after learning how blurred the distinction is between feral and non-feral, Nathan is forced to flee with his sister and his boyfriend, only to discover their safe house hides a secret that might cost Nathan his freedom.
Content and/or Trigger Warning: sex and violence. [Note: failed suicide attempt]
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