THE PROM KING

(A murdered outcast, a buried secret, and one girl who learns that revenge never graduates)

Every Prom King gets his crown… this one gets his revenge.

In the rust-belt town of Crickett Hollow, Prom Night is more than a tradition; it’s a blood debt. Thirty years ago, six popular kids lured shy AV-club misfit Caleb Morrow into a prank that became a pyre. They welded the closet shut, doused him in thinner, lit the match, and called it an accident. The town buried the truth.

Now, their children rule the school: the quarterback, the cheer captain, the TikTok star, the prom chair, the twins. And one girl who doesn’t belong, Billie Bennett, whose mother vanished after photographing Caleb’s final moments.

When the clock strikes midnight on Prom Night, the Prom King rises, eight feet tall, tux fused to burnt muscle, crown of mirror shards glowing red. Every heir will burn, one per hour, until the debt is paid in full.

Armed with her mother’s Nikon, a cursed Polaroid, and a scar that counts down forty-two seconds at a time, Billie must uncover what really happened in 1995… before the King crowns her next.

From Annalise Turner, author of Witches Harvest and The River’s Reaper, comes a slasher for the digital age: molten, vicious, and cinematic. In Crickett Hollow, every generation gets the Prom it deserves.