Horrors & Harlots (Spells & Sundry Book 2)

Freshman year at Dalton Academy is supposed to be about mastering magic and surviving the social hierarchy, but for Query, it is a desperate fight for survival. She is battling a decaying transformation that threatens her very existence, all while haunted by the ghost of a banished Shadow Fey princess and the wreckage of a past she cannot outrun. When a horrific demon attack results in a student death, the school’s administration opts for a cover-up, leaving Query caught in a web of mounting dread and suspicious silence. Just as the walls begin to close in, an ancient, malevolent force takes notice of her. It doesn’t hunt her; it tempts her. It whispers of power and belonging, dangling the promise of salvation before a girl who has been conditioned to believe that she is beyond saving. As the line between terror and seduction blurs, Query must navigate treacherous friendships and volatile desires that threaten to undo her entirely. In this dark, sapphic fantasy, the true peril isn’t the monsters prowling the halls—it is the shame that acts as a leash and the devastating risk of letting someone else define who you are.