The Lantern Wilds That Devoured Lovers

By: Matthew Petchinsky

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Paperback | 24 February 2026

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When a wandering city of lanterns appears in the forest each night, lovers enter hand in hand-and vanish without a trace.

Elowen and Cassian refuse to become another whispered tragedy. But the wild-city is not made of stone and iron alone. It is hunger given architecture. It is devotion sharpened into teeth. And at its center waits a presence that does not crave flesh-it devours promises.

As lanterns ignite without flame and streets rearrange like a living mind, the couple discovers the truth: the city feeds on surrender. The deeper the love, the sweeter the feast.

When Cassian's blood begins reacting to the lantern glow and Elowen binds her own pulse to a cursed flame, they become something the city has never tasted before-resistance.

But the wild-city adapts.

Shadows peel from bark. Echoes scream without sound. Lanterns become fangs.

To survive, Elowen and Cassian must face a question more terrifying than death:

If love is what the city devours... how much of it can they keep before it consumes them both?

A gothic psychological horror of obsession, hunger, and devotion turned monstrous.

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