Captured by the Monsters by R.L. Caulder

They say it’s an honor to be chosen…I call it a death sentence. No one knows what happens to the girls who vanish into The Below, only that they never come back. Rumors say the monsters devour them and that their hunger is growing. I’m days away from aging out when my name is drawn. Dragged beneath the surface of our world, I wake in a realm that’s rotting from the inside out. The air is poisonous to humans—designed to strip flesh and sanity alike—but it’s the monsters themselves who are the real danger. Once solid creatures, now little more than swirling shadows. They claim they need a true mate strong enough to tether them back to flesh and they think that’s me. Three of them stalk me in the dark, half-formed and starved for touch. They whisper riddles into my ear, trail claws along my skin, and promise to protect me from their world trying to kill me, if I let them in. To survive, I have to submit to them. Read more