DARK SECRETS

Sara Loreeta's life shattered the night her father was murdered in cold blood.
Now, at eighteen, she's forced to leave behind her friends, her home, and every familiar street she's ever known. Her mother, Celeste, has remarried - to a wealthy man from a strange little town called Dark Oak, population 1,450. The kind of place that feels frozen in time, wrapped in shadows... and hiding something no one dares to speak of.

Their new home is a massive, black, medieval-style mansion surrounded by iron gates and whispering trees. Inside, the air is colder, the halls darker, and the silence heavier than anywhere Sara's ever been. But it's not the creaking floorboards or the endless fog that sends chills through her - it's her new stepbrother, Borek Moxadona.

Borek is beautiful in a dangerous way - black hair, piercing green-blue eyes, and an expression that says he's already figured out all your secrets. He keeps to himself, always locked away in the mansion's basement library, scribbling in leather-bound journals. He's cold to Sara... almost cruel. But she can't shake the feeling that he's watching her, studying her, keeping a distance for a reason.

Then there's Bex - the man who now calls himself her stepfather. Charming, elegant, and impossibly young-looking despite claiming to be in his forties. There's something about him that makes people obey without question. And when Sara notices his eyes flash a dangerous shade of red, she starts to wonder if her father's death was the beginning of a much darker truth.

The people of Dark Oak keep their eyes down and their mouths shut. But Sara can't.
Not when she starts piecing together the strange history of the mansion.
Not when her mother begins to change in ways that aren't human.
And not when she realizes that Borek's coldness isn't hate - it's hunger.

Because in Dark Oak, secrets don't just stay buried... they bite back.