Exclusive: Tracy Wolff’s ‘Sweet Nightmare’ Excerpt is Bringing Us Back to the Iconic ‘Crave’ Universe

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Tracy Wolff’s Crave’s series still has us reeling after saying goodbye last year, but that doesn’t mean we have to say goodbye to the world for good. In fact, we’re about to return for another dark year this time over at Calder Academy and trust us when we say Katmere Academy has nothing on it. The stakes have never been higher as some of the most dangerous students go. And then there’s Jude Abernathy-Lee who you’re definitely going to be obsessed with.

Cosmopolitan has an exclusive look at the first book in the new Calder Academy series where we also get to meet Clementine, whose mother just so happens to run the academy. And when things get dark and spooky one night, there’s no telling what can go down. Here’s what publisher Entangled Publishing says about the kind of chaos you can expect when it’s released on May 7, 2024:

The scariest school on earth is about to experience real fear…Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.

I should know. Because I’m trapped here.

Look, every 17-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target on my back. The way I make it through these dark halls is by steering clear of the things—and kids—who go bump in the night.

Especially Jude Abernathy-Lee.

But when a freak storm hits our isolated island, I’m stuck without a backup plan. The power is gone. The lights are out. And our worst nightmares are suddenly real—and out for blood.

Now the only way to survive is to align myself with one evil to avoid the other.

And the only thing worse than the idea of getting close to Jude? Secretly loving every minute of it.

Ready to figure out what is going to happen next? Well, luckily for you, we got an exclusive excerpt that you can check out below. Don’t forget to preorder Sweet Nightmare and also maybe even throw in a full Tracy Wolff reread to get your mind ready for what’s to come.

An Excerpt From Sweet Nightmare

By Tracy Wolff

Prologue

Night After Night-Mare

– Jude –

I know your worst nightmare.

No, not that one. The other one.

The one you don’t trot out at parties.

The one you don’t whisper to your best friend late at night.

The one you don’t even acknowledge to yourself until

it’s three a.m. and the lights are out and you’re too paralyzed with fear to even reach your arm out and flick on the bedside lamp. So you lay there, heart racing, blood pumping, ears straining for the slide of the window, the creak of the door, the footstep on the stairs.

The monster under the bed.

The monster inside your head.

Don’t be ashamed. Everyone has one—even me.

Mine always starts out the same.

Full moon. Hot, sticky air. Moss hanging low enough to brush your face on a late-night walk. Waves crashing against the shore. A cottage—a girl—a storm—a dream, forever out of reach.

I know it doesn’t sound like much, but the story isn’t in the setup. It’s in the blood and the betrayal.

So fall asleep if you dare. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.Because the only thing I can promise is that my nightmares are worse than yours.

Text copyright © 2024 by Tracy Wolff. Reprinted by permission of Entangled: Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

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