Benjamin Layfield

Larkspur survived the night. That doesn't mean the darkness left. After Bracken Hollow burns, Cassian Hale is certain the worst is over, until a familiar face starts walking in daylight, offering bargains and spreading fear with a smile that shouldn't exist. In a town built on old contracts and older lies, the dead don't stay quiet, and the rules don't protect you, they bind you. When the darkness crosses a line by using Evie as bait, Cassian snaps.and for the first time, the thing that feeds on fear learns what it feels like to be afraid. Because once a monster realizes it can be hurt, it stops hunting in shadows. It starts hunting you.