Grayling (Nocturnal Creatures 3‪)‬

But above all, Crimson daughters here,
It is the king whom you should fear.

The king returns to a wife's fever yearning for the coolness of his dead skin and a captain reluctant to give in to his fundamental desire to dominate his queen.

Just when everything seems to have settled into something as close to perfect as Asha can imagine, she awakens back in the Gray with no idea how she arrived there—whether stolen from the arms of the castle's monsters or discarded by the monsters themselves.

In the midst of the mystery, Asha must contend with the a world she gladly left behind and which is none too happy at her return.

Series Advisory: MF, FF, MM, and various combinations; horror-related violence and gore, bloodplay.