How far would you go to break a pact sealed in blood? Arriving at the academy wasn’t a beginning, but a condemnation. Aelwen, marked by a family trauma that haunts her like a cold, damp shadow, is recruited into an isolated institution where reality shatters. Here, human rules are irrelevant; survival is all that matters. Locked away with three youths from dark lineages, creatures of the night who scorn her apparent fragility, hostility is immediate. Every glance is a knife; every touch, a threat. Yet, in the claustrophobia of the night, something darker emerges. It isn’t affection. It’s hunger. A visceral and dangerous attraction born from shared fear. As ancestral secrets begin to bleed through the institution’s cracks, Aelwen discovers that her presence is no coincidence, but a pending ritual sacrifice. The ‘villains’ around her are not just guardians, but jailers obsessed with her. The true horror lies not in what stalks us, but in the secrets that destroy us from within. A fusion of dark psychological suspense and forbidden romance where the line between victim and hunter blurs. Perfect for readers of Dark Romance and Paranormal Fantasy.