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  WHAT TO EXPECT: Pitch black plot Serious on page NC Bodily Mutilation N*crophilia YOU CAN OUTRUN A MONSTER. YOU CAN’T OUTRUN A DEMON DISGUISED AS A GOD They took my name first. Then my face. I was brought here to pay for sins that were never mine. Traded, reshaped, and punished until the woman I used to be is completely erased. They say I look like her. They demand that I become her; become a living ghost. And when I fail, they remind me what happens to replacements that don’t fit their requirements. For a long time, I believe there is only one man doing this. His cruelty and obsession simply wearing different moods like a living god who punishes and absolves at whim. By the time I learn the truth, that there are in fact two of them, that they are twins, it’s already too late. I no longer remember who I was before they remade me. And I don’t know if that loss terrifies me…or if surrendering to it is the only way I can survive. My Review Leandra and Lazarus do not have a straightf...

  Eighteen years ago, the Lull Lane Dollmaker made ten families porcelain dolls as gifts to welcome their children into the world. But what these families didn’t know was that the souls of the lullabies were poured into each one as they were created. Now, the Dollmaker is coming to collect. One. By. One. Briar Hartley is the queen of Wisteria High—rich, ruthless, and devastatingly pretty. She breaks hearts for sport, ruins reputations with a whisper, and collects ex-boyfriends like trophies. Apologies aren’t in her vocabulary; the world exists to serve her, and everyone else is just background noise. She’s never given a second thought to the strange doll that’s been perched on her bedroom shelf since she was a baby. Not until it starts to whisper. As the rhymes grow darker, Briar’s perfect body begins to betray her. Fine white fur creeps across her skin no matter how often she shaves it. Her teeth sharpen into eager little knives. Hunger coils inside her, curling tighter each day, ...