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Renovation Death

Beneath the Seasons

There was no welcome mat at the front door, and that should have been enough to make the Renovation Team turn back.

Nariah Bosseck and her renovation crew—Niles, Tavis, and Carnell—step inside the house. They expect rot, mold, and bad wiring, not a past that refuses to stay buried. With every room they gut, fragments of a violent history surface, revealing the life of a previous owner whose fierce love, brutal executions, and obsessive spirit survived death. The house resists them quietly. Memories claw their way into the crew’s minds. Even when Nariah sleeps, she dreams of a man she has never met—his hands steady, his love violent, his faith rooted in reclaiming what was lost.

As the house tightens its hold, his memories thread through their thoughts, his devotion bleeds into their lives, and the house begins choosing who will carry his work to its final, bloody end.

What if the sun were something you were never meant to feel or see? Every day, every season, for a seventeen-year-old named Fiametta Skalenta/ Fia, for short, who lives beneath the cover of darkness, sleeping while the rest of the world wakes, she only emerges after sunset to pretend she belongs. All she wants is the one thing she can never have: an ordinary life while living with her family of eight in an old but beautiful two-story house just outside Helena, Montana. It’s crowded with parents, grandparents, and siblings, including her younger brother, Kegan, who is deaf. They are constantly watched by neighbors who whisper and judge what they don’t understand. To the outside world, the Skalentas are strange. Secretive. Different. What no one knows is that they are prisoners of a deadly genetic disorder known as RO-I—Reflective Optical Ignatius. Exposure of their eyes to sunlight can be devastating, even lethal, forcing the family to live apart from the rest of society. They are not monsters or freaks of nature, as they’ve been called. They are a family with morals, values, and hearts that can break. And because of what they are, and what they can do, they carry a responsibility far heavier than secrecy. They live in the shadows not to hide from the world, but to protect it.