Seven Summons

Mara is one of the city’s most sought-after companions—beautiful, poised, and paid to be everything but truly known. One rainy night, alone in a stranger’s apartment, she finds an old Ouija board and speaks into the dark on a careless whim. What answers is no game. What follows is a bargain she cannot refuse: a terrible trade to save her own life, one that will bind her to something ancient and hungry. She gives what she is used to giving—until the deal is done and she is set free. But freedom proves colder than the pact, and letting go becomes impossible. A haunting tale of desire, power, and the terrifying truth that once you taste the dark, you may never want to turn away.