While on vacation in the town of San Soros, Alexander hears the legend of the island just offshore. Hundreds of years ago, the townsmen killed almost all the women as witches, but the women still remain, the angry and vengeful undead. They destroyed the island monastery in revenge, and for a man to go to the island is death. Every year, the villagers appease the ghost women with gifts of flowers and beads … but every hundred years, the legend goes, a man must be sacrificed.

Alexander doesn’t believe a word of it. When village woman Lucia and fellow tourist Nettie ask him to accompany them to the island, he agrees. There Lucia drugs him, and both she and Nettie leave Alexander alone on the island, rowing back to shore. Alexander takes refuge in the ancient church, intending to try to get back to the mainland tomorrow.

Unfortunately, the legend is real. The undead mermaids return and take their due. The tithe is paid for the next hundred years.

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Jack’s paranormal investigations have rocketed him to internet fame, even though he thinks the whole thing is a joke.

His wife Amy—not nearly so skeptical—tries to be supportive, at his side for every live-streamed adventure. But something about this next location and its tragic history has all her instincts screaming that they should sit this one out.

No one has entered Middleton Manor in decades. It should stay that way.

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She will have her revenge.

Xi Fei was orphaned at a young age in China, and has been alone ever since. When she visits Japan and meets Akio, the pair become inseparable. They travel together—first to Paris, then to England, each studying their chosen artistic interests, but never straying far from one another.

But while enrolled in the University of the West Midlands, Xi Fei falls victim to bullying, abuse, humiliation, and outright negligence from not only her peers, but even the university staff meant to protect her. When Akio dies under suspicious circumstances, Xi Fei is yet again left alone. Bereaved, traumatized, and shouldering the weight of grief all on her own, her breaking point has been reached.

Xi Fei’s unbridled rage releases a curse, and its victims are those she holds personally responsible for Akio’s death and her own unhappiness at the university. From the professor who mocked her in front of the class, to the security guard who assaulted her, and even her old flat mate… These seven people will go their separate ways and may hardly remember the young woman they ruined, but they all have one thing in common…

None of them are safe.

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