Forebidden

Seventeen-year-old Sasha Banks has spent years trapped in a nightmare. Ever since her father remarried, he and her cruel stepmother have subjected her to relentless abuse-beatings, starvation, neglect, and a life completely devoid of love. The only person she ever truly cared for was her mother, whose disappearance has haunted her for years. What Sasha doesn't know is that her father has been hiding a horrifying secret: he murdered her mother himself.
Sasha clings to one hope. On her eighteenth birthday, an ancient bloodline will awaken, granting her the power to transform into a vampire. It could finally give her the strength to escape the people who have controlled her entire life.

Across campus is Bayley, a girl with scars of her own. After her mother murdered Bayley's father, younger sister, and then herself, Bayley entered foster care at just ten years old. Raised by a loving foster mother, she eventually discovered she could transform into both a wolf and a werewolf. Though she's found a family, the memories of that tragic night have never left her.

The two girls attend a prestigious academy where vampires and wolves are educated together-but never truly united. Years ago, during Bayley's freshman year, a violent incident shattered any hope of peace between the two species, forcing the school into strict divisions.
Lurking beneath the academy is its greatest mystery: a sealed basement that no student is allowed to enter. Rumors claim something evil was locked away there long ago. Others believe the truth is even worse.

When Bayley sees Sasha being mercilessly bullied, she steps in to help, beginning an unlikely friendship between two girls haunted by tragedies. As Sasha's eighteenth birthday draws closer, buried secrets begin to surface, ancient powers awaken, and the truth behind the school's forbidden basement threatens not only vampires and wolves-but everyone inside the academy and themselves.