🌙 Southern charm. Gothic dread. Otherworldly danger.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “In Hemridge, every porch light flickers a warning—and every shadow has teeth.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Some boxes hold keepsakes. This one holds curses, blood, and the names of stolen children.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “She was raised to smile and stay quiet. Instead, Willow opens the Box.”

Some boxes should never be opened.

Willow Braselton grew up in Atlanta high society, trained to smile, stay quiet, and play her part. But she’s never been good at pretending—not when she spoke the truth about what happened her senior year, or when she whispered about shadows at the edges of the world. Her family dismissed her. Her friends turned away. But Willow refused to be silenced.

When a folklorist suggests the blood of old mountain families runs in her veins, Willow bolts for Hemridge, North Carolina—a town thick with secrets. There she meets Cole, a quiet local with grief in his bones, and together they uncover a coffin-shaped relic whispered about for generations.

The Queen’s Box.

Opening it rips wide the seam to a cursed fae realm born of Hemridge’s own past—unleashing a reckoning that will consume the town, unless Willow unravels its secrets before they unravel her.