The Veil of Lies

Some lies are beautiful enough to believe.

Amara never believed monsters were real.

Then she was thrown into the Hunt.

Every night, vampires release humans into the forest and give them one rule: survive until sunrise.

Amara should have been easy prey.

Instead, she learns how to disappear.

How to listen.

How to survive.

And somewhere in the darkness, one vampire begins watching her.

Dimiric is ancient, ruthless, and patient. The kind of predator who doesn't need to chase what he knows will eventually run into his hands. He doesn't understand why Amara survives when so many others don't.

But he intends to find out.

Then, with dawn only moments away, Amara vanishes.

Not into the forest.

Somewhere else.

She returns just before sunrise with no explanation, no memory of where she has been, and no idea that something on the other side has already noticed her.

Something beautiful.

Something watching.

Something that should not know her.

Amara thinks surviving the Hunt means she has escaped the vampires.

She is wrong.

Because the night she disappears is only the beginning.

And the deeper she is pulled into a world built on blood, desire, betrayal, and beautiful lies, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between the monsters hunting her...

and the ones she chooses to trust.