20 Kapitel Laufend ErwachseneninhaltEvelyn 'Evie' Saliem has always loved fear.
The thrill of it. The rush. The delicious terror of haunted houses and horror films. She's even named her kitten 'Spooks' because she loves the holiday so much. So when a new ScareFest comes to Pluckley-England's most haunted town-she doesn't hesitate and drags her two best friends: Ivy and Ania to join her.
What Evie doesn't know is that the festival has drawn something far more dangerous than actors in masks.
Fright is the King of Fear itself.
Ancient. Powerful. Inhuman. Born from humanity's first scream, he is the embodiment of every nightmare that has ever existed. He doesn't feel. He doesn't love. He feeds-on terror, on panic, on the delicious substance of human fear.
And then he meets her.
The human girl who reaches out and touches his 'costumes'. Who fights instead of crying, who throws rocks at him instead of begging for her life. Whose fear tastes like nothing he's ever consumed before-sharp and intoxicating and powerful enough to make even the King of Fear want more.
Evie thinks the festival ends on Sunday night and she'll never see the handsome man who dresses up as a skeleton.
She's wrong.
When the King of Fright decides to keep you, there is no escape. There is no reasoning with a creature who sees humans as cattle. There is only the question of whether Evie can survive being claimed by Fear itself-and whether Fright can hold onto his crown when the human who makes him stronger also makes him feel something he was never meant to understand.
A dark monster romance where the monster stays monstrous, humanity is optional, and love is the most terrifying thing of all.
Some monsters don't have redemption arcs, instead they make you want to keep them that way.