Something beautiful
is waiting for you
in the dark.

Readers may encounter:

• Religious cults, indoctrination, fanaticism, and spiritual abuse
• Human sacrifice, ritual murder, blood, corpses, and altar imagery
• Forced marriage and a woman being traded as part of a political arrangement
• Captivity, confinement, imprisonment, collars, chains, and physical restraints
• Drugging and involuntary intoxication
• Forced nudity, nonconsensual ritual bathing, bodily inspection, and dehumanizing comments about a woman’s body and fertility
• Threatened sexual violence, forced consummation, reproductive coercion, and forced pregnancy language
• Misogyny, objectification, loss of bodily autonomy, and coercive control
• Familial betrayal, emotional neglect, and abandonment
• Physical assault, threats, blood, wounds, biting, cutting, and violent death
• Body horror, ritual scarring, thorns embedded in flesh, and supernatural markings
• Drowning, near-drowning, choking, suffocation, and resuscitation
• Claustrophobia, caves, confined underground spaces, darkness, and entrapment
• Deep water, violent storms, flooding, explosions, and structural collapse
• Haunting voices, supernatural compulsion, and imagery involving past sacrificial victims
• Grief, parental death, burial, prolonged isolation, and fear of abandonment
• Brief references to child illness and death
• References to a nonhuman character consuming human remains
• Explicit, consensual sexual content, including oral and penetrative sex, biting, claws, restraint, and nonhuman anatomy