Step into a world where pleasure becomes pain, and reality is the cruelest illusion.

Life for River Reed is a waking nightmare. Lonely, shy, and practically invisible, he drifts through the world unnoticed. But everything changes when a group known as the Misfits invites him in. With them come wild parties, sex, drugs, and the intoxicating feeling of finally belonging. But admission comes with a price... and it might cost him everything.

David Drake is exhausted: by work, by life, by the crushing weight of isolation. Until the night he stumbles upon a hidden door to a world unlike anything he's known. A realm of exquisite ecstasy and unspeakable torment. There an enigmatic figure offers him a choice: eternal life... or endless suffering.

River and David's twisted paths collide through a mysterious woman named Harper?beautiful, elusive, and otherworldly?who holds the key to their dreams, nightmares, and destinies... though in terrifyingly different ways. The hunt to find her will drag them deep into a hellish underworld where unspeakable horrors await.

Veil is a harrowing descent into the heart of the unknown: where loneliness and love entwine, where the fantastical twists into the macabre, and where dreams bleed into nightmares.

Grant Palmquist is the author of the science-fiction novel Azure and four horror novels: A Song After Dark, Permanent Winter, Dirge, and The Seer. His short stories have appeared in Chizine, Dogmatika, and Underground Voices.