Scarlet Ashes

When Rumi Winchester earns a prestigious scholarship to the elite and secretive Covenridge Conservatory Institute, she believes it's her chance to rewrite a life marred by loss. But the scholarship comes with one unusual clause: participation in a groundbreaking psychological experiment led by the enigmatic Draven Moreau and his older brother, Cassian.

Draven is magnetic, brilliant, and unsettlingly calm - and the more time Rumi spends under his watch, the more drawn she becomes to him. But something is wrong beneath the surface. The experiment isn't what it seems, and neither are the Moreau brothers.

Unbeknownst to Rumi, Draven is fighting a curse older than time - a dark compulsion that forces him to kill. He doesn't want to hurt her. He swears he won't. But Rumi reminds him of someone long buried, and she's surrounded by classmates whose blood he's fated to spill. Draven has lived for centuries, haunted by blood and burdened by guilt.

When a string of gruesome, unsolved murders rocks the campus, Rumi an aspiring investigative journalist begins to dig. The bodies are drained, the wounds too precise, the victims all eerily connected. As Rumi begins to investigate a disturbing pattern of disappearances on campus, horror at the heart of the Moreaus' experiment, or fall for the man destined to destroy her.

Because some scholarships are earned with ambition.
And others are paid for in blood.