The Gates of Edom

Every nightmare has a key. Hers is hidden behind a velvet curtain.
For months, twenty-one-year-old Brooklyn art student Carolina Avenant has been haunted by a single, terrifying premonition: her mother’s brutal murder. On her birthday, the vision turns into an agonising reality outside Edom—the city’s most exclusive and dangerous nightclub. But Carolina doesn’t just find a corpse. She uncovers a legacy of blood, dark secrets, and an iron gateway to a realm she was never supposed to enter. Plunged into Thalassas, a subterranean prison of obsidian and iron, Carolina discovers the chilling truth. She is not merely human. She is a Hybrid—a rare, forbidden creature bearing both a Hunter’s lethal blood and a Warlock’s volatile magic. In this decadent "Gilded Cage," humans are nothing more than harvested fuel for the immortal High-Bloods, and Carolina’s unique lilac eyes make her the ultimate prize. To survive, she must navigate the lethal gaze of Alistair Valerius, the silver-eyed Prince of Ruin. Born to a monster and desperate for freedom, Alistair sees Carolina as the weapon he’s been waiting centuries to wield. But when an accidental, parasitic bond violently tethers their souls—forcing them to share pain, dark desires, and an insatiable hunger—the line between predator and protector blurs beyond recognition. With a cataclysmic harvest threatening to spill over into the human world, Carolina faces an impossible choice: surrender to the darkness to become part of the ruins, or let her spark bleed dry in a fight against the very monster she is bound to.
Step through the gate. Embrace the ruin.