A PERFECT GETAWAY. A STRANGE KIND OF SILENCE.
Bianca Monroe wakes on a beach with no memory of how she got there.
That would be alarming if the beach weren’t perfect.
Cayo Sereno is everything a tropical escape should be: impossibly blue water, golden sunsets, luxurious suites, flawless food, and seemingly anything Bianca could want. Better still, she has the entire resort to herself.
At first, that feels like winning.
Then Bianca starts noticing the things paradise can’t explain. The sun doesn’t move quite right. The staff never appear. The same warm voice answers every question without really answering anything. And every attempt to leave brings her straight back to where she started.
Cayo Sereno will give Bianca everything she wants.
Everything except a way home.
CAYO SERENO
An aIDOLS B-Side Reverie by Tim Frank
B-Side Reveries are standalone stories built around characters from the aIDOLS universe, giving each of them a chance to step into the spotlight before their larger stories begin.
MYSTERY | SPECULATIVE FICTION
WELCOME TO CAYO SERENO
Pale sand. Turquoise water. Golden hour that seems to last forever.
From the infinity pool to the open-air restaurant at Marea, every corner of Cayo Sereno seems designed around one idea: give the guest exactly what she wants.
And for Bianca, it does.
Paradise has never looked this good.
SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT
The candles are lit. The tables are set.
Dinner is waiting for a hundred people.
But Bianca is still the only person there.
The longer she stays, the harder it becomes to ignore the silence and the growing suspicion that Cayo Sereno isn’t empty by accident.
Everything is ready. Everyone is missing.
MEET BIANCA MONROE
Bianca can make a joke out of almost anything.
She’s impulsive, expressive, fiercely attached to her friends, and more than willing to enjoy an unexplained tropical vacation before asking too many inconvenient questions.
But beneath the jokes is someone who needs other people more than she realizes. Cayo Sereno gives Bianca every luxury imaginable and slowly forces her to discover which thing she actually can’t live without.
EVERYTHING SHE COULD WANT. NO ONE TO SHARE IT WITH.
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