Teen Screams 5. Salem - David Soto-Rios

At Saint Hecate University, power is inherited, beauty is weaponized, and every girl is being watched.

Dejanae Brooks came to Salem for a fresh start. Saint Hecate offered money, prestige, and the chance to turn survival into something legible. Instead, on her very first night, an anonymous account called ASHLINE names her as one of nine girls tied to the rise of the next Witch Queen.

The problem? Dejanae was never supposed to be on that list.

While Salem's most powerful bloodlines circle each other with silk, spite, and old magic, Dejanae is pulled into a world of haunted houses, secret portraits, buried ancestry, and a crown built to consume daughters. The more Saint Hecate tries to decide what she is, the more the school's oldest machinery begins to answer to her instead.

And when the first girl dies, it becomes clear that this is no campus ritual.

It's a selection.

Now Dejanae is trapped in a gothic war of ambition, inheritance, desire, and blood - where rival witches would kill to wear the crown, the dead are no longer staying erased, and Salem itself seems hungry for a reckoning.

In this fifth installment of the Teen Screams series, David Soto-Rios delivers a dark, glamorous nightmare of elite witch houses, vicious secrets, deadly girlhood, and serious supernatural horror.

For readers who love gothic campus horror, witchy power struggles, dark feminine atmosphere, deadly rivalries, and high-drama supernatural suspense.