ember & ink publishing

A bloodline curse. A buried history. And a girl chosen by forces that should have stayed asleep.

When sixteen-year-old Aya Robertson buries her grandmother, she expects grief - not the shadowed woman watching from beneath a cypress tree. Not the whisper of her name carried on a wind that no one else can hear. And definitely not the glowing mark that burns itself into the center of her palm overnight.

Willow Creek has secrets - old ones, dangerous ones - and Aya has just been claimed by them.

With the help of her fearless best friend Chrissy, Aya uncovers the truth: her family descends from a line sworn to stop a powerful blood magic ritual started by the notorious Blackwell Plantation. But the Blackwells are not gone. Their matriarch, Eleanor Blackwell, is awakening...and she wants Aya.

As nightmares bleed into reality and spirits claw their way back into the world, Aya must decide whether to run from her inheritance - or embrace it and become the weapon her ancestors died for her to be.

But blood remembers.

Blood calls.

And blood always claims its own.