The Beast Breaches - Hulderotica, #24

For over three hundred years, the Maidens of Marrowmont have kept the Maw – a ravening devourer from beyond reality – leashed to Marrowmont. But now a series of betrayals has undone everything the Maidens built. With the Pacts sundered and the beast called across the barrier bordering its extra-dimensional prison, all that stands between the world and annihilation is the Maidens' contingency plan: Marrowmont's most powerful deities, monsters, and spellcasters, united alongside the Maidens themselves. For if the city falls, the rest of reality follows.

9,200 Words. Standalone.