Lily in the Darkness

The cold isn't just in the air. It's hungry.

Lily Stuart survived the shadows of Seven Sisters, but the silence that followed is even louder. While the rest of her family wants to wrap her in protection, Lily is done being the damsel in a ghost story. Her power is no longer a whisper; it's a roar, and the more she tries to cage it, the more it threatens to consume her.

But a new kind of winter has come to Alabama-a biting, unnatural chill that doesn't melt under the Southern sun.

When a series of hikers vanish in the dense, fog-choked woods outside of Mobile, the police call it exposure. The locals call it bad luck. But Lily sees the truth in the Dream World: a creature of bone and ash, driven by a starvation that can never be sated. A Wendigo has been awakened, and it's no longer content with the isolated trails. It's moving toward the city, guided by a scent it recognizes.

It smells Lily's power.

With Aunt Carrie Jo's magic still flickering like a dying candle, Lily realizes the guardrails are gone. This isn't a haunting she can banish with a prayer or a relic. This is a predator that thrives on the very thing Lily is trying to suppress-her darkest instincts.

As the temperature drops and the scratching at the door grows bolder, Lily must make a choice: remain the protected heir to a legacy she didn't ask for, or become the hunter she was born to be.

The hunt is on. And this time, Lily is the one who will bite back.

Lily of the Darkness is the gripping second installment in the Dreamwalker series, a Southern Gothic journey where the line between girl and monster thins, and the only thing more dangerous than the thing in the woods is the girl walking through its dreams.