“A surprisingly affecting tale of terror.” - Kirkus Reviews

Elodie Villeneuve has monsters in her family.

When Bennett and Elodie first meet, the connection is immediate and intense. Both of them are trying to escape the shadows of their pasts, hoping to make sense of their lives in the present. Although they're new to each other, their devotion runs deep. But the shadow that hangs over Elodie—the disturbing legacy of her lineage and the strange genetic condition that haunts it—cannot be ignored for long.

Meeting the family of your significant other is never easy. For Bennett, it means coming face-to-face with a reality outside his understanding. His curiosity has led him to strange, sometimes dangerous places before, but never to the precipice where love and darkness meet, along the blurry line that divides people from monsters.

Marion Del Rosario disappeared at age twelve, and no answers ever came. Ten years later, Charlie Louise is still haunted by the empty space in her life that Marion once filled. They were best friends, each other's first loves. She still searches for Marion in the eyes of strangers, trying in vain to escape the gravity of her past. The only things that give her hope anymore are her father, whose sobriety has brought a semblance of stability and comfort; and her friend Adrian, whose kindness she feels she doesn't deserve.
Then Marion reappears as mysteriously as she vanished. Traumatized and afraid, she refuses to talk about what happened to her over the past decade-but it's clear there's more going on behind her reticence. In trying to reconnect with her long lost friend, Charlie unwittingly places herself in the proximity of deep, unimaginable horrors that will forever alter her understanding of reality. Something terrible is reaching out from an aching darkness, bringing strange dreams and alluring promises of deliverance from grief, sorrow, and longing-at a devastating cost.