When Elara Blackwood inherits a decaying estate at the edge of a hostile forest, she expects to confront the ghosts of her family’s past. She does not expect Silas—the scarred, masked caretaker who stalks the halls like a predator and warns that the house is hungry.Elara should run. Instead, she is drawn to the dangerous protector who understands the darkness inside her. As buried journals expose a blood-soaked pact and a corrupt sheriff closes in, attraction hardens into obsession...