She is the popular girl Steve Harrington hasn’t claimed but refuses to release. Eddie is her brother’s new best friend. Her father works at the lab—and the town is already buzzing with strange new incidents, flickering lights, missing time, and tremors in the woods that don’t feel natural. Yet the pull between Y/N and Eddie grows heavy. Quiet. Intense. Lust disguised as curiosity at first, then something much more dangerous.