The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

by Matt Dinniman

This apotropaic talisman looks like something a goth teenaged girl would shoplift from a Hot Topic. A girl who dreams about one day meeting a hundred-year-old predator and making him fall in love with her. Remember, it’s not a crime if he’s handsome or rich or looks like a teenager.

Trauma does that, I thought. It’s an explosion with your heart at the center. It changes everything all at once.