Coming Spring 2026

Monty finds his life in shambles following the sudden death of his mentor, Dr. Giovanni. Searching for work to get back on his feet (and off his friend Mina's living room floor) he finds a groundskeeper listing at the Giovanni Estate, the very location of his professor’s suicide. Now, presented with the opportunity to learn what really happened, Monty takes the job. Did she really kill herself, or could there have been foul play?

Things are not as he expects when he arrives at his professor’s crumbling New York estate. Its lone inhabitant, Cameron, is a little less than willing to share details about their late mother. As Monty starts the monstrous task of reviving the dilapidated Victorian, he also begins his search for the truth, every answer only leaving him with more questions.

Between his nightmares and Cameron’s increasingly violent warnings, Monty begins to suspect his employer is hiding something terrible. Soon he finds himself plagued by what lurks in the woods, the ghosts of regrettable actions, rattling sabers, and the growing yearning for his eccentric employer. What monsters haunt the shadows 67 Blackberry Place? Is Mina’s girlfriend on to something? And why dose Cameron keep looking at Monty like that?

Haunting the Scavenger is 87K~ words of Queer Gothic Horror set in early 2000's upstate NY that centers the romance of a queer man and a nonbinary fem. Come for a classic gothic tail turned a little sideways, including a big burly "damsel in distress", the illustrious haunted Victorian mansion, vampires, a good dose of horror, steamy make-outs, sword fights, awful women being evil, and much more! Boys, blood, and familial trauma!