Soul Ties, Volume 1: Fated

Will Byers spent 8 years as a Slayer thinking he knew the difference between the living and the dead. He thought he'd found a way to balance the darkness of the Upside Down with a normal life in Manhattan, married to a man who represented everything the monsters weren't... safety and a future. He was wrong.

After a betrayal in the frozen brush of Purgatory, Will is forced to do the unthinkable: kill the man he loves. With a shattered heart, Will's soul drags him back to the only constant he has ever known-a doorstep in a conservative small town called Hawkins that Will swore never to return to, and the boy with the soft brown eyes he left behind years ago.

But Carlton's death was only the beginning.

Between monsters crawling the gloomy fog of Hawkins, and the secretive five men who all want a taste of Will Byers, Will is left to question everything he once believed. As Will tries to heal in the combined solace and stress of Mike Wheeler's constant protection, he must face a terrifying reality: the monsters didn't stay behind in New York, his bloody past is coming back to haunt him... and he's the one that brought it home.

"Hey, well... at least it can't get worse, right?" -Mike Wheeler