🫀 In the Shadows, Something Soft: Book 4.5 A Shifter’s Tale

 

A Shifter’s Tale — Coming August 31st

In the shadowy corners of a city that feels perpetually underwater, A Shifter’s Tale peels back the veil on what happened to Remington Connors in the missing month between the tragedies of To Dream Beneath Dying Stars. Releasing August 31st, this deeply emotional interlude in the House of Teeth Saga is more than a side story — it’s the raw, tender truth of how Remi began to unbury himself from the ruin of who he thought he was.

His story opens in the wreckage of Uncle Ivan’s garage — the air heavy with dust, disappointment, and the silence of what used to be home. The van, barely running, is his only ticket out. But where do you go when everywhere reminds you of pain? You drive. Fast. Without looking back. Until the engine fails or your heart finally cracks.

Enter Levi, a vibrant, freckled stranger whose presence is like a tiny sun in Remi's moonless existence.

A stranger with freckles like galaxies and a personality like sunlight on seawater, Levi is everything Remi has learned not to trust. And yet — he’s kind. Not just surface nice, but disarmingly, stubbornly kind in a way that disorients Remi. Levi’s converted bus, full of fairy lights, mismatched pillows, and warm vanilla tea, becomes an accidental sanctuary. One Remi didn’t think he deserved.

What unfolds is a dangerous, beautiful unraveling. Remi isn’t used to being touched gently, emotionally or otherwise. And Levi doesn’t demand anything from him — just honesty.

Their bond is not easy. Remi is haunted by addiction, by trauma, by the voice in his head that’s not always his own. Levi has his own ghosts, but he offers Remi something quietly revolutionary: the space to feel safe.

“ Funny, how quickly kindness could start tasting like poison— something sweet at first, until it burned your throat, left you choking on pride and suspicion.”

As Remi claws through withdrawal and self-loathing, Levi remains a light in the dark — not to rescue him, but to remind him that he isn’t beyond saving. It’s messy, raw, and real. This isn’t a story about perfection. It’s about surviving the fall and slowly, painfully learning to want more than just survival.

A Shifter’s Tale explores love that doesn’t fix, but heals in fragments. It’s about the families we find, the softness we protect like flame in a storm, and the quiet revolution of being seen.

And yes — monsters deserve love too.

🎤 Preorder now available: books2read.com/A-Shifters-Tale
💀 Official Release Date: August 31st — only at houseofteeth.love
📖 This is what happened when Remi ran. And what made him stop.