Les belles promesses

Pierre Lemaitre

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The world believed monsters were myths.

It was wrong—but not in the way anyone expected.

When Ethan Cross survives a violent encounter under a full moon, he discovers that werewolves are real, hidden, and hunted—not by superstition, but by systems built to control what society fears. As secrecy collapses and the truth spills into public view, Ethan becomes an unwilling symbol in a world struggling to decide whether exposure leads to freedom—or chaos.

But revealing monsters only uncovers deeper ones.

In the wake of disclosure, ancient vampires step into the open—not as predators of legend, but as architects of stability who have quietly shaped governments, economies, and human behavior for centuries. They offer safety without fear, order without violence, and certainty without consent. As cities accept their "voluntary governance," Ethan is forced to confront a darker truth: sometimes control feels like mercy—until people begin disappearing quietly.

When restraint finally fails, humanity takes the next step itself.

In a desperate attempt to recreate stability, human institutions weaponize behavioral suppression, stripping people of agency entirely. The result is not the undead, but the living absent—millions trapped in bodies that function without choice. As the world debates whether silence is kinder than suffering, Ethan faces his most impossible challenge yet: how do you fight something that isn't a monster, only a consequence?

Across three books, The Moonlight Accord chronicles the collapse of hidden power and the cost of replacing it. Werewolves learn to live without myth. Vampires learn that immortality without consent is extinction. Humans learn that outsourcing responsibility always comes due.

No side wins.
No solution is clean.

What survives is choice—imperfect, exhausting, and irreversible.

A grounded, adult urban fantasy trilogy blending political thriller, speculative ethics, and supernatural realism, The Moonlight Accord asks a final, dangerous question:

What happens when the world wakes up—and no one is allowed to look away?

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