Moonlight & Mucus

All Clarella Swanface wanted was a quiet return to night classes in her bizarre hometown of Dripwood. Instead, she finds herself tangled in a web of mop-slick hallways, whispering lockers, sentient fog, and a janitor whose glowing cuticles might just be the most dangerous thing she's ever fallen for. When the enigmatic Egbert mops the fog from the sidewalks and straight into her life, Clarella is pulled into a surreal chain of events involving bureaucratic prophecies, cosmic custodian lore, and the small matter of an alien larva with questionable Shakespearean tendencies. As the Dripwood Institute of Bio-Spatial Learning & Lunch bends reality around her, Clarella must navigate paranormal faculty, leaking memories, and a romance that may be equal parts salvation and contamination. Between Oversight's cryptic interventions and the town's habit of remembering things you'd rather forget, she's about to learn that cleaning isn't about erasing the past-it's about discovering what's still clinging to you. Equal parts absurd comedy, eerie mystery, and oddly tender love story, Moonlight & Mucus is for readers who like their romance messy, their sci-fi unhinged, and their horror served with a side of lemon-scented inevitability.