Jihae is hungry for home. As the colonys first Halloween Festival approaches, Jihae becomes nostalgic for ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Unlike in the West, South Koreas spookiest season is the dead of summer, once the humid air goes still and the shadows hang heavy in the trees and alleyways So when shes offered the task of decorating a haunted trail, she takes the opportunity, even though it means shell be working with the most terrifying creature in the colony: the hellish bilong named Sizzle.
When he starts haunting her dreams, she blames it on her obsession with supernatural K-dramas. But this taboo infatuation is more than a passing phase. Once Sizzle sinks his teeth into her, she knows hell never let go.
Sizzle is hungry for connection. Connectors, actually. Electrical wires, pistons, plasma filters, battery acid The bilong is insatiable. At least, until he meets Jihae and everything starts to taste like soap. Though he despises the taste of flesh, Sizzle finds that Jihaes scent is the only thing that makes his mouth water. The human woman is causing his instincts to shift in unpredictable ways.
Unable to get her taste out of his senses, Sizzle does what any apex predator would do. He stalks from the shadows, hunts her scent, and plays with his food until the succulent pitter patter of her little heart makes him drool Jihae will accept his possessive claim. And hell make sure she likes it.
