Evanescence

The kingdom of Dreadmoor was built on secrets.

For four years, Lady Adelaide Petrov has mourned a father who vanished beyond the eastern mountains, swallowed whole by the same darkness that has long haunted the kingdom's black stone walls. While her ambitious mother claws desperately for power within the royal court, Adelaide wants only answers.

But answers in Dreadmoor come at a cost.

When Adelaide discovers evidence of a forgotten relic hidden beneath the castle, she descends into the ancient oubliette searching for the truth behind her father's disappearance.

Instead, something in the darkness answers her.

Now plagued by whispers no one else can hear, Adelaide finds herself caught between two dangerous men: a cold, enigmatic royal knight who knows far more than he admits, and the prince she is bound to marry, a man as haunted and beautiful as the kingdom itself.

One stirs the embers of duty.

The other awakens something far more ruinous.

As buried truths claw their way into the light and an ancient evil begins to wake beneath Dreadmoor, Adelaide is pulled deeper into a web of betrayal, obsession, and forbidden desire.

Because the darkness beneath the castle is no longer sleeping.

And somehow... it remembers her.