Hello everyone. I'm sorry to tell you all like this, especially after promising that I wouldn't do this, but I'm canceling Hearts of Monsters. Looking back at it, the execution was sloppy, the story was weak, the characterization wasn't spot on, and the action scene back in chapter 3 wasn't exactly riveting. In fact, I'm genuinely astounded that it even got as many favorites and follows as it did. To those of you who actually cared about this story, don't worry, I'm not completely abandoning you. Hearts of Monsters will be rewritten and republished with a new title, "Missing." (Working title.) It will be told slightly differently and take a new direction from the original, but a fair amount of the core plot will ultimately be the same.

Again, I am so sorry to everyone who actually bothered to follow this story, this was the first challenge I ever accepted and holds a very special place in my heart, but because of that I wanted to be as good as if not better than some of my newer work. I want this to be a story that people actually look forward to reading and not something that they forget about until the next update shows in their email box. My point is: in the grand scheme of things Hearts of Monsters was little more than a messy belly flop, I know that I can do better, so if you'll have me, I'll see you all in the next story which I promise you will be significantly better. Thank you for your time.