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.In 1982, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. Michael Jackson released and "Thriller. and " E.T. phoned home. Voyager passed Saturn, the planets aligned, Freddie Mercury played SNL. In the small coastal town of Marrow, California, the sun went down.And never came up again.Welcome to a town where the rules of normal no longer apply. Where the sun will not rise, and the moon refuses to set. Where the people are beginning to change, beneath the haunted moonlight.And where a boy whose heart does not beat begins to transform into something monstrous. Something terrifying. And only his love for his childhood best friend may keep his soul intact.All Sho Asawa has ever wanted was to confess his love to Naoki Okubo, and run away from Marrow together. But as a strange barrier descends on the town, as creatures of myth and legend whisper in the dark......it may already be too late to escape.