Youngest Stackhouse Book 2

Mystery Gang Headquarters was supposed to be safe.

After surviving Bill, Marcellus, hunters, old magic, and more chaos than one house should ever hold, Lena Stackhouse finally has something worth protecting: a living, breathing home filled with the people she refuses to lose.

Jason. Sookie. Alcide. Eric. Pam. Godric. Warlow. Sam. Lafayette.

Their pictures hang on the memory wall in black gothic frames, sealed by one rule that matters more than all the rest:

**Nobody on the wall gets left behind.**

But Marcellus was only the mouthpiece.

The real threat is older. Hungrier. Smarter.

**Bellerose. The First Hunger.**

It feeds through fear, grief, want, and power. It looks for cracks in the heart and turns them into doors. And now it has its eyes on Lena-not because she is weak, but because she is the one thing it cannot easily break.

A lock.

With Alcide as her warm anchor, Eric as her cool shadow, and her strange supernatural family standing between her and the darkness, Lena will have to learn just how deep her gold magic goes.

Because the First Hunger is coming.

And this time, Mystery Gang Headquarters is not just a home.

It is a fortress.