The Holly Pact

<p>It began with a package-no return address just a sprig of mistletoe wrapped in red ribbon and black thorns. Every kiss beneath it awakened something cold and ancient buried in the snow. Now in the quiet town of Ellensburg a winter demon stirs once more.</p><p>When Nora Bellamy returns home after her mother's death she inherits more than a house-she inherits a blood-bound curse. As mysterious mistletoe appears across town people begin to change. Compelled by a hunger they don't understand they kiss-and the ancient pact edges closer to being fulfilled.</p><p>To stop the final kiss-the one that will unleash the demon B'rhent-Kael upon the world-Nora must unravel her family's hidden past decipher the lost Carols of the Dead and face a truth buried beneath generations of silence and grief.</p><p>But some pacts don't just break-they <em>remember</em>.</p><p>A chilling holiday horror steeped in folk ritual grief and forgotten magic <em>The Holly Pact: Blood Beneath the Mistletoe</em> is a haunting tale of love memory and the cost of warmth in a world that no longer understands its power.</p><p><strong>The mistletoe isn't just watching. It's waiting.</strong></p>