Beyond The Veil

Chicago, 2005.The city hums with static, sirens, and things better left unseen. Leon Miller-Castillo has a temper, a sharp tongue, and a talent for pretending he isn't falling apart. When his best friend Jaylin dies, grief doesn't just haunt him-it gives him a gift he never asked for. Leon can see the dead, and they see him too. As ghosts gather and the city's hidden world cracks open, Leon is pulled into a nightmare of witches, psychics, and eldritch horrors hiding behind human faces. His class partner Vad-quiet, strange, and unsettlingly familiar-is one of them. He's not human. He's ancient. And from the moment Leon looks at him, Vad can't look away. Vad watches Leon like prey and like prayer.Like something sacred he was never meant to touch. Love, obsession, and horror bleed together as Leon realizes the most dangerous thing in Chicago isn't the dead following him-it's the monster who would burn the world down just to keep him safe.