DRAGONS WITHOUT A LEADER.

From the outside, Liberty Baudelaire's life looks like a string of unfortunate coincidences: tragedy clinging to her family name, friendships shadowed by danger, and a curse-like pattern that no one dares to name aloud. But Liberty knows better. Ever since she was old enough to understand, she's felt the invisible chains of her mother's choices binding her every step.

Her mother, the reigning queen of the Lavender Ruins, is more feared than adored. Legends say that as a reckless, ambitious teenager, she struck a deal with Satan himself - a bargain that bought her power, a throne, and an endless curse for her bloodline. Liberty has spent her whole life trying to live in that shadow, only to discover that history seems determined to repeat itself. The same betrayals, the same strange encounters, the same haunting patterns of love and loss that marked her mother's youth are beginning to creep into Liberty's own.

And then there is the monster.

It prowls the edges of her world - a nameless, faceless terror responsible for maimings, deaths, and disappearances across the city. It leaves devastation in its wake, yet whenever Liberty or her friends are near, it never strikes. In its silence, in its deliberate hesitation, lies the most chilling question of all: why them? Why does it kill with abandon, but never her?

As Liberty digs deeper, she finds herself caught between two truths - the story of her mother's cursed past and the mystery of the monster that seems bound to her present. But every answer uncovers another thread linking her fate to her mother's sins, another reminder that her life is not her own.

If the deal still lingers, then Liberty must decide: will she inherit her mother's damnation, or find a way to break free before the monster's patience finally runs out?