She was born from a secret.
Now the truth wants her dead.
Rochelle Baptiste has spent her entire life believing she was ordinary.
A pharmacy graduate student with a talent for solving problems, Rochelle trusts facts, evidence, and logic. But after a family funeral uncovers long-buried secrets, she learns that the woman who raised her is not her mother—and that Jacqueline Baptiste, the mother she never knew, vanished twenty-two years ago after being hunted by something far more dangerous than human.
As strange abilities awaken within her and impossible truths emerge from the shadows of New Orleans, Rochelle discovers that someone erased Jacqueline from history. Someone destroyed records, buried evidence, and spent decades ensuring the truth remained hidden. Now the same enemy has returned.
The only person standing between Rochelle and the darkness is Lucien Dracourt—a centuries-old vampire prince burdened by his own haunted past. What begins as an investigation becomes something neither of them expected: a bond powerful enough to defy ancient laws, bloodlines, and destiny itself.
But some secrets were hidden for a reason.
And the closer Rochelle comes to uncovering what her mother died protecting, the more she realizes that the truth could cost her everything.
Her family.
Her future.
Even her humanity.
Because monsters aren’t the only things lurking in the dark.
Sometimes the most dangerous betrayal is the one buried in your blood.
