Darkling collective aug 2026 (8 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I paid fifteen years of my life to save the man in the channel.I would do it again. That isn't the problem.The problem is what the trade gave back.Feu has always been the light at the edge of the Hollow. The amber flicker at the tree line. The thing you are never supposed to follow. He spent seven months leading danger away from me before I knew enough to thank him for it, and I am still not comfortable with how much that matters.Now he has hands.Sometimes.Thirty seconds at dusk. Forty-five by the end of the week. Long enough to touch me. Not long enough to stay.The door opening for him is not like Leste's. Water has rules. The channel has weight. Feu is light, wanting shape, and the covenant has never been generous with wanting.I have a tremor now. Gray at my temples. A house watching from the kitchen window. A rougarou at the fence. A man in the water who knows exactly what fifteen years cost. And a will-o'-wisp sitting beside me at the bench, becoming real by increments I do not have a budget for.I'm still a science teacher from Ohio. I still write everything down.But I am beginning to understand that some lights don't lure you into the dark.Some lights have been keeping the dark from finding you.Brightwater is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 5 of the Vauclain Monsters series. Folk horror filtered through romance. A heroine rewriting the covenant from inside it. Monsters who are monstrous first.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I paid the tithe. I pressed my hand to the bark at the last hard frost and the binding renewed and the hollow went quiet and I thought: this is what it feels like when it works.It worked. Just not enough.The covenant renewed at its original terms - terms written in 1847 for something that has spent 178 years growing. The boundary holds. The lures are weaker. The thing below the hollow has a name now, and I didn't want to learn it, and that's been the pattern.The one in the house knows something he hasn't told me. I can feel it in the shape of what he doesn't say. The one at the boundary is still here - not because he has to be, not anymore. The one made of light flickers in patterns I'm starting to read. I am keeping notes.The one from the deep water stopped being careful with me. What I didn't know is that the water he came from runs in two directions, and I haven't mapped the second one yet.The parish is talking. Conversations stop when I walk into the diner. I am holding a line this town can't see and being blamed for what leaked through before I held it.The lid is too small for the jar.Breakwater is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 2 of the Vauclain Monsters series.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Leste gave up the deep channel for me. I didn't ask him to. He just stopped going back. And the stillness I used to trust in him shifted into something I couldn't read, and he wouldn't explain it, and I let that go on too long.Now the channel is open from the other side. A woman has come to Gravier with a name I've never heard and a debt older than the covenant. And the man who has lived in the walls of this house for two hundred years is about to tell me what he should have told me the night I arrived.The covenant was a feeding arrangement. I've been maintaining it like it was mine to keep. It wasn't.Deepwater is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 4 of the Vauclain Monsters series.Tropes: why choose - monster romance - supernatural covenant - forced proximity - he fell first - morally grey love interests - found family - Southern gothic - folk horror romanceDella's story continues in Brightwater - Vauclain Monsters, Book Five.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I know what the covenant was built to do. I know it's been feeding the wrong thing for a hundred and seventy-seven years. I know the tithe, the binding, the tree - every tool Madeleine left me - is part of the problem. Every time I use the system, I feed the thing the system was supposed to contain.I need a different way in.The man at the eastern fence held the line for thirty years past what he was promised. The rougarou tracks my heartbeat from the wire. His body comes to the house instead of the boundary now, and every night he fights it, and the fighting is breaking him apart. Hortense promised him release. I am not Hortense. I don't know yet what I am instead.The man in the walls knows what Madeleine actually did in 1847. I said his name and the house shuddered and a door opened that hadn't moved since the covenant was struck. Two rooms still dark. He's terrified of what happens if I open them.I'm going to open them anyway.Groundwater is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 3 of the Vauclain Monsters series.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The sea keeps what it's owed. unless someone claims it first.Savannah Cane came home to bury her great-aunt: drowned in the marsh, boots dry. Three days, then gone.But the ferry breaks, the bridge closes, the lighthouse goes dark, and the drownings begin.The island's monsters are real, they've watched her family for two hundred years, and the reason is simple: her pirate ancestor promised the sea a daughter of his line.The line ends with her.Four monsters are sent to collect her. Four monsters refuse. Now the sea has stopped waiting.Flotsam is Book 1 of The Salvage Claims, a scorching why-choose monster romance-low-country coastal gothic, slow-drowning dread, and four monsters who would drain the ocean before they let it have her.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I inherited forty acres of Louisiana bayou from a great-aunt I met once.The land came with conditions. A blood tithe, paid at the first hard frost. A boundary that has to be walked. And four creatures who have been keeping this property for over a century, waiting for someone with Vauclain blood to come home and pay what's owed.The one in the house has been here since before the house. The one at the boundary was promised his freedom thirty years ago and never got it. The one from the deep water is the most trustworthy thing I've ever met, and I am monitoring my own response to that very carefully. The one made of light walked me in circles my first night on the property. I'm still furious about the mud.Something lives below the Hollow. I don't know what it is. I know the covenant was built to keep it there, and the covenant hasn't been fed in thirty years, and the things that happen when it gets hungry are beginning to show.I'm a science teacher from Ohio. I write everything down. I measure what I can.The rest, I'm learning by having.Boundwater is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 1 of the Vauclain Monsters series. Folk horror filtered through romance. A heroine who asks the right questions. Monsters who are monstrous first. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I opened Sable's room months ago.That was not the same as freeing him.Sable is in the kitchen now. In the chair. In the warmth at my back. In every wall of the house I inherited and chose and bled for. He was the first one I named, the first one who answered, the first one who taught me that a house can want.But Sable is still the house.The fires are out. Leste has come up from the water. Corvin has his resting state. Feu has daylight. For the first time since I came to Vauclain, every one of them has a door.Now December is coming.The frost is when the covenant takes its due: blood at the bark, years from the holder, the old terms paid in the old way. Every Vauclain woman before me paid to keep the cage standing.I am done keeping cages.There is one covenant left to read, one name still buried under the water, and one man in the walls who has spent nearly two hundred years being the place everyone else came home to.This time, I am not paying the tithe to hold the house together.I am paying it to bring him home.Homebound is the sixth and final book in the Vauclain Monsters series: a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance about the winter tithe, the first covenant, and the man in the walls who has never been allowed to come home. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The whole coast salts its sills against the Boo Hag. Savannah Cane cut a door in hers.Loving the island's most feared legend has a price, and Cane's Folly means to charge it. The founding families have kept balanced books for two hundred years-empty coffins buried with full honors, a ledger with six pages razored out-and the dredge just pulled up the one witness they never managed to burn: a buried ship with a name still on her stern board, and only one diver the water will allow down to read it.They tried drowning Savannah quiet. The water sent her back up. Now the old houses are setting a genteel table with her name on the bill of sale-and nobody on that island has ever once asked the sea what it actually wants.Mercer knows. A hundred years to the season, skin to skin, she's going to tell her-and then Savannah Cane is going to sit down at a table at the bottom of the channel and negotiate for everything she loves.The sea keeps what it's owed-unless someone claims it first.JETSAM is Book Two of THE SALVAGE CLAIMS - a why-choose monster romance quartet: one salvage diver, four monsters (one of them a woman), high heat, no choosing required. Reads best after FLOTSAM. Content notes: drugging, peril, drowning deaths, grief; HEA guaranteed by series' end.…