The Pitch
After losing her family in a fire, a young woman enrolls in a university—but when a powerful being threatens her life at her new school, she’s forced to make another deal with the dark god who lit the match.
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THE NIGHTWEAVER blends the otherworldly bargains and macabre world of Phantasma by Kaylie Smith with the immortal yearning and darkly divine love interest of Nightshade by Keri Lake. The male main character is similar to Luc in The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab, while the vibes are reminiscent of Robert Eggers’ 2024 adaptation of Nosferatu.
“Vow yourself to me, little dove,” the god whispered with a voice steeped in midnight dreams.
Hair the color of moonlight, utterly and artfully messy, fell across his forehead as he stared down at Evelyn. Within the black hole of his irises, tiny flecks of silver and gold shifted like constellations reforming in the sky. She felt like one of them, like she was a fallen star about to be swallowed by the night.
Evelyn took a deep breath. Her heart flickered in her chest, yet to her surprise, there was no fear. There was only him.
“I… I vow. I vow myself to you, Nightweaver.”
The Nightweaver smiled, slow and satisfied. “Oh, darling. You have no idea what you’ve just done.”
Nothing happened. For a moment, the world remained still.
A single star flickered. Then another. And another.
The constellations—once wondrous and warm—shifted into strange, jagged shapes as if the sky itself were fracturing. Stars rained down like ashen shards of glass. From where they fell, black smoke rose into the air, consuming the night in an inferno of darkness.
Evelyn’s world of dreams didn’t just fade. It shattered. Until nothing remained but nightmares.
And then the screams began.”
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