The village of Duskshire seemed peaceful at first sight. Laughing children running around, adults gathered around the fire. It was far from it. Beyond the walls of the village a demon, vampire, lurks. What makes him different from other vampires? He came back to life from the power of revenge and regrets. He is the demon haunting the village. Every five years, the village selects a family who must send their first born to the vampire as an offering. This year, the Pierce family has been selected. Ebony Pierce is the first and only child of the Pierce family. When Ebony is left in the forest as the sacrifice, the demon takes an odd liking to her. Something about this girl draws him in. Will Ebony be able to tame this creature from hell itself? Or will he finish playing his games and kill her?

"Why do they call it Shadowood?" I ask as we walk deeper into the forest. Old, dried up leaves crunch beneath my feet as I move a branch to the side, and drops of water from the trees above fall on my clothes from the recent rain. "Because they say that where ever you go, even in the clearings, a shadow is always following closely behind." All rights reserved. Cover by @surrealinfinities

THIS STORY IS DISCONTINUED. READ IF YOU WANT, BUT IT'S NOT FINISHED. "Featherstone forest is a place where all fictional becomes reality." [ cover made by @bottom_of_styles ]

"Stop. Stop, please." I sob as the whip comes down on my back once more. "Shut up yo-" my tormentor's words are cut off by a ferocious growl. I sense another masculine figure in the dark room, but can't make out a word he's shouting. The burning and searing pain that I'm experiencing is just too much. A sickening snap is heard and something drops onto the cold, stone flooring. The chains around my wrists and ankles are broken along with the tight metal collar around my neck. "Mate." my rescuer growls, gently cradling me in his arms. ********************* Charlotte Beck has been tortured and abused by the Red Stone pack ever since she turned eight. She doesn't know why they hate her or how she ended up a lower rank than the Omegas; no one even bothered to label her as a slave. She has never known the true meaning of love or how it felt like, all Charlotte knows is that her pack surely doesn't feel that way about her. Finding a mate was a dream that was thrown out the window long ago; all of the verbal abuse led her to believe that she didn't deserve one. It's not until she attempts to escape again that she realizes that she has a chance of living a better life, one where abuse isn't an everyday thing. Xander Reynolds, Alpha of the Lunar Shadow pack, finds her when she's taken to his cells as a trespassing prisoner. Known as the strongest Alpha in the continent, he does everything he can to protect his mate. The only problem is that she's too emotionally scarred to allow him to. His dark and violent reputation is the only thing that Charlotte knows about him. The memories of their childhood together beaten out of her mind. Traumatized and high on fear, she struggles to let down her walls. Her real home is with a man who she cannot remember and a brother who she wishes she remembered. Can Xander get his mate to love him? Or will Charlotte let her past keep them apart?