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Breakwater
Paperback
Series: Vauclain Monsters, Book 2
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Darkling Collective
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I paid the tithe. I pressed my hand to the bark at the last hard frost and the binding renewed and the hollow went quiet and I thought: this is what it feels like when it works.
It worked. Just not enough.
The covenant renewed at its original terms - terms written in 1847 for something that has spent 178 years growing. The boundary holds. The lures are weaker. The thing below the hollow has a name now, and I didn't want to learn it, and that's been the pattern.
The one in the house knows something he hasn't told me. I can feel it in the shape of what he doesn't say. The one at the boundary is still here - not because he has to be, not anymore. The one made of light flickers in patterns I'm starting to read. I am keeping notes.
The one from the deep water stopped being careful with me. What I didn't know is that the water he came from runs in two directions, and I haven't mapped the second one yet.
The parish is talking. Conversations stop when I walk into the diner. I am holding a line this town can't see and being blamed for what leaked through before I held it.
The lid is too small for the jar.
Breakwater is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 2 of the Vauclain Monsters series.
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