Demon She Carries

Two lives separated by a century. One monstrous truth that binds them.Flora lives in the quiet terror of the present. She wakes with secrets behind her teeth and visions of a classmate, Ben, being torn apart by a violent, unnatural light. She knows things she shouldn't—his secrets, his hidden fears, and the terrifying certainty that he is running out of time.A hundred years earlier—or perhaps just yesterday—Caleb lives in the blood-soaked cycle of the past. Trapped in a loop of memory where she failed to save the woman she loved from a brutal blade, Caleb makes a desperate vow: Never again. Never weak. Never unprepared. It is a promise so fierce it begins to turn her into something sharper. Something monstrous.As memory and reality begin to blur along the winding roads of California, Flora and Caleb must confront the darkness growing inside them. In a world of botched rituals, masquerade balls, and psychic ghosts, control is an illusion—and the demons they carry are ready to feed.