I wake up bound in a winter wonderland with no memory of how I got here.Thousands of Christmas lights illuminate the land around me-a sprawling tree farm transformed into a mystical land of candy. Behind me, footsteps crunch through freshly fallen snow. A voice cuts through the silent night, commanding me to run.So I do.Through rows of evergreens wrapped in twinkling lights and past peppermint archways that morph this place into a dark fairy tale. My boots slip on ice as he closes in, his presence everywhere and nowhere at once.He knows this place. Every path. Every hiding spot.He knows me-my body's treacherous responses, the dark desires I've fought to hide.When he finally catches me, wrapping me in strings of Christmas lights like I'm a present, I'm forced to confront an impossible truth: the most dangerous games are the ones we've been dying to play all along.Each book in the Dark Nights Collection CAN be read as a standalone. Please read the content warning prior to diving in.