For artist Clara Jenkins, the last ferry home is a cage she's happy to miss. She wants the real Edward's Cove, the one that comes alive when the tourists flee and the nor'easter hits.

Forget monsters in the air vents. The real horror is already inside your head.

For Dr. Aris Evans, alone on the deep-space vessel Odyssey, the nightmare begins when the power dies and a voice starts speaking. Not over the comms, but directly in her mind. It knows her heart rate. It knows her regrets. It can weaponize the memory of her daughter's laughter.

To save her family, she performed a ritual of desperation. The man who answered offered her the world. The contract is a single page. The price isn't in ink. And the signature... is her surrender.