Summer Jasmine Smythe has done everything right. Good grades. Good manners. A future everyone approves of. But on one restless Friday night near Thornspire, she asks the universe for escape—and something ancient answers. What she finds in the woods isn't a cautionary tale or a monster from folklore, but a presence that sees her hunger, her darkness, and wants her anyway. Loving him means disappearing from the life she was promised... and rewriting the rules of who gets to be human.
Years later, the world still calls Summer Jasmine a missing girl.
Her daughter knows better.
Born of wings and defiance, raised between backroads and forests that remember secrets, Dominique steps through the gates of Thornspire Academy not to be saved—but to learn how power really works. Among towers that watch, systems that hunt the different, and legacies that refuse to stay buried, she must decide whether to haunt the world that fears her... or take it over.
A gothic paranormal romance about desire, inheritance, and choosing feral freedom over polite survival. This is a story for readers who like their love stories sharp, strange, and unapologetically monstrous.
