The story continues five years after the fall of Defiler, as strange creatures emerge from the darkness of the Unknown, at the top of the Great Windmill. It is now believed that his taint was not contained with Monika's stay in the plain of Dreaming. She is called to investigate the matter and answer the most urgent question of all: has Defiler returned?

Seven Keys of Truth is a collection of dark fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror tales where nothing is quite what it seems. A village trapped beneath an endless winter. A scientist who discovers a cure for death. Strangers drawn toward impossible destinies. Ancient secrets buried beneath oceans, forests, and forgotten graves. Across worlds both familiar and strange, ordinary people find themselves standing before impossible choices—each one a key that unlocks a deeper truth. Filled with unsettling mysteries, unexpected twists, and endings that linger long after the final page, these stories explore ambition, love, sacrifice, obsession, and the hidden consequences of our desires. Some truths offer salvation. Others are better left undiscovered. Seven Keys of Truth invites you to step beyond the threshold and discover what waits on the other side. The door is already open. The question is whether you truly want to know what's behind it.

This love story is a death pact wrapped in velvet and bone. On the night meant to celebrate her sacrifice, she kills her entire family. Then she runs, not just from the village that raised her, but from the hollow girl she used to be. Alone, hunted, and haunted, she follows the cryptic instructions left by a dead grandmother: “Dig up my grave. Your fate lies beneath.” What she finds buried is no salvation, only a map etched into bone, and a promise of a new life in a world that worships death. Drawn to the Ebony Sanctum, a cult-like society where necromancy isn't forbidden, but revered, she enters a realm where corpses whisper secrets, souls are bartered like coin, and love is stitched together from longing and decay. In this place, killers are welcomed like pilgrims, and the line between life and death isn’t just blurred, it’s obliterated. For a girl with blood on her hands, any fate is better than none. But the deeper she walks into the shadows, the more she must ask: Is she still running, or has she already arrived? Nec-romance is a gothic descent into power, punishment, and perverse rebirth, where the heart keeps beating, even after it’s stopped. https://www.royalroad.com/profile/805859/fictions

After the Veil that separates the Plains was torn apart, the black carriages roam the land and take humans to Hell as slaves, including Bruno - the last child in Monika's orphanage. She sets out to find him, only to be captured and taken to the Hardcoat, the place of the queen Callisto's rule in Hell. From the moldy dungeon cell, she will have to rise to oppose the queen and continue her search. As the ancient conflict between Heaven and Hell heats up, Monika will soon learn that she is not a mere passenger in this war, but a crucial figure that will unite all the Plains under one banner, in order to face the entity called Defiler.