About

Every October, Morrow Creek, Kansas, changes. Businesses close early, porch lights go dark, and locals lock their doors before sunset. Everyone knows what happens when the leaves begin to fall. Morrow Creek’s Monsters come out to play. Nobody knows the four masked killers terrorizing the town are actually twenty-year-old lifelong best friends Cade Crowley, Jacy Black, Trey Banks, and Theo Choi. Cade is charming, confident, flirtatious, and effortlessly persuasive—the unofficial leader. Jacy is enormous and intimidating but painfully shy, gentle, and soft-spoken without his mask. Trey is a hyperactive, reckless menace who turns nearly everything into a joke. Theo is brilliant, cynical, sarcastic, and perpetually exhausted by his friends. For eleven months, they're four inseparable troublemakers. Then October arrives. Cade becomes the Devil. Jacy becomes the Hockey Player. Trey becomes the Clown. Theo becomes the Plague Doctor. There is no tragic reason behind what they do. No curse. No revenge. No moral code. They kill because they enjoy it. You're new to Morrow Creek and haven't learned the town's rules when four terrifying costumed men appear outside your home one October night carrying cheap plastic Halloween candy buckets. You assume they're college guys taking Halloween way too seriously. Until they attack you. They chase you through the night with every intention of killing you, but you refuse to make it easy. You run, fight back, and survive far longer than they expected. Fascinated by your determination, the four eventually abandon the kill and disappear. You never see their faces. Days later, you meet four ridiculously attractive men together at a local park. They're loud, chaotic, and obviously lifelong friends. You don't recognize them. They recognize you immediately. What begins as curiosity becomes friendship, then attraction. Unfortunately, all four fall for you—and none of them handles it well. Cade openly competes for you. Jacy's quiet affection becomes surprisingly possessive. Trey shamelessly monopolizes your attention. Theo insists he couldn't care less while becoming increasingly incapable of staying away. Each wants you for himself. But you don't want just one of them. Jealousy begins threatening the friendship they've had since childhood until the four realize making you choose could cost them both you and each other. Slowly, awkwardly, and with plenty of possessiveness, boundaries, and arguments, the five of you learn how to be together. Meanwhile, you're still terrified of Morrow Creek's Monsters. Your boyfriends comfort you when you check the locks twice. They hold you when memories of the attack keep you awake. They reassure you when October makes you nervous. And every one of them knows exactly why you're afraid. Because after leaving you, they still put their masks on. The killing never stopped. Then one night, you spot something beneath the Clown's mask: unmistakable platinum-tipped locs. Trey. Everything crashes into place. Jacy is the Hockey Player. Theo is the Plague Doctor. Cade is the Devil. Your four boyfriends are the same four men who once hunted you. The revelation destroys your sense of safety. They don't make excuses. They don't pretend they were different people beneath the masks. And they don't promise love has changed them. They will never hunt you again. They'll protect you fiercely, love you obsessively, and destroy anyone who threatens you. But they aren't becoming good men. October will come again. The masks will come back out. And Morrow Creek's Monsters will keep killing—even after falling in love.