Book#249, International Collection, Themes: Gothic Horror / Occult Transformation / The Hunter Becomes the Hunted, Keyword: Dartmoor, Gothic Hotel, Incan Ritual, Human Trafficking, Feminization, Occult, Body Horror, Immortal Villain, Revenge, Kidnapping, The Moors
The moors are silent. The hotel is hungry. And the guests are changing. Troy Carter travels from sunny Miami to the desolate, fog-drenched moors of Dartmoor to find his estranged sister, Julia. What he finds is the Hodgson Hotel—a decaying gothic monstrosity run by Julia’s brutal husband, Arthur Sykes. But Sykes is just the muscle. The true power in the hotel is something much older. Drugged and imprisoned in a cold cell, Troy discovers he is not the only captive. He is surrounded by the “Silent Sisters”—missing young men who have been surgically and ritually transformed into women. Subjected to injections of a dark, viscous fluid harvested from a terrifying source, Troy feels his own body beginning to “unbecome.” His muscles soften, his skin pales, and his identity begins to dissolve into a stranger named “Tamara.”As he uncovers the truth about an immortal Incan priest and a sacrament of blood, Troy must forge an alliance with an undercover cop to burn the hotel to the ground. But can he save his soul when his body no longer belongs to him? (A harrowing, atmospheric gothic horror about the fluidity of the flesh and the resilience of the spirit.)
[CONTENT WARNING: HORROR/TRAUMA] Contains severe themes of: Kidnapping/Confinement, Non-Consensual Body Modification (Ritualistic/Medical), Human Trafficking/Sexual Slavery, Child Endangerment (Blood harvesting from minors), and Violence/Murder.
Heat Level (1-5) 4 (Dark / Disturbing) The sexual content is often coercive (forced prostitution/survival sex) or framed as a “test” of the transformation. The focus is on the horror of the violation and the “unbecoming” of the male self.