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GRIFFIN THOUGHT THE MONSTERS ONLY LIVED IN HIS HEAD.
He was fine with that. In fact, it was far more preferable than his father sitting him down to talk about the regular visits from the things that go bump in the night and hearing him say “yeah bud, I see them too.”

A string of grisly murders plague the capitol city, leaving both the Royal Sentry and Brightloch Police scrambling to solve them first. Haunted by visions of faces that shortly after appear in the crime scenes, Griffin knows that he owes it to the victims to find their killers.

Tropes
second generation, the chosen one’s best friend, polyam family, second chance romance, hot dads, disappearance, occult murders, best friends to lovers, pining letters, two relationship arcs

Tags
mental health rep, pan MC, parent MC, open door, trans masc LI, M/M, M/F

Content Warnings

Loss of a parent, Loss of a spouse, Description of food, Descriptions of off-page episodes of delusions (paranoid), On-page descriptions of visual, audio, and tactile hallucinations, Violence and murder, Monster horror, Blood and gore, Sleep paralysis, References to off-page domestic violence, Alcohol use, Smoking, Desecration of remains, Explicit sexual content, Ritual murder