Cole McCade returns with a new paranormal serial as Xen - where slow burn meets wonder and mystery, monsters and enchantment, and the love of two best friends finding their feelings in the strangest of ways, the strangest of places...and the strangest of transformations in this haunting retro M M fairy tale.Sho Asawa won't wake up. Can't wake up. Trapped somewhere between life and death, haunting Marrow unseen, only his longing for Naoki tethering him to a body caught in stasis, locked in the throes of a monstrous change. Those who can run from Marrow, run. But for some it's already too late, as the strange things happening to them lock them in the darkness.The frogs sing a prophetic warning. A mother searches for her lost son. And a great skeleton looms over the town, its great and booming steps cracking the earth.Outside, the world moves on. The light still comes. Police gather on the boundary between Marrow and reality, and news stations around the globe ask: what is happening, in this isolated California town?No one knows. No one has any answers. But the moon advances on. Unstoppable. Inexorable. Relentless.A baleful eye - yet who is the one watching?