VEIL OF DECEPTION

"The hauntingly beautiful town of LostWood hides a deadly secret. A secret that has swallowed over a hundred families since the late 1800s. A place where the lines between predator and prey blur, and beauty masks malevolence."

When famed detective Elliott Wallace Wilson, disguised as Jasper Willows, steps into LostWood, he has only one goal: to unravel the chilling mysteries that have eluded the world's best investigators. But nothing can prepare him or his partner, Cherry Beasley, for what lurks beneath the town's charming façade. An alluring woman named Geraldine List, with an enigmatic smile and eyes that see through his soul, becomes both an irresistible obsession and a terrifying threat.

As missing families, beautiful strangers, and whispers of unknown creatures plague their every move, Jasper and Cherry quickly find themselves caught in a web of deception and dread. Geraldine knows his true identity-and more alarmingly, she knows his deepest fears. When the tables turn, and Cherry is forced to become a double agent, loyalty and sanity are pushed to the brink.

But in LostWood, where monsters wear human faces, and love itself can be a weapon, who is really the hunter? And who is the hunted?

In a town where beauty is deadly and desire is forbidden, Jasper must decide if he's willing to risk losing himself to the darkness. "Because once LostWood claims you... it never lets go."