MilosMilage
"Some cities do not let go."
When brothers Iraklis and August Athanasia find themselves in Ebonridge. powerful, watchful, and already carrying more than he says, Iraklis is pulled almost immediately into the deeper architecture of Ebonridge: Founding family politics, ancestral magic, powerful objects, supernatural boundaries, and the buried hostility surrounding the Athanasia name.
August is thrown into the volatile world of newly acquired vampirism, fragile belonging, and the social world of school, full of shifting loyalties, exes, and temporary romances. Publicly welcomed, privately watched, Iraklis is forced to protect his brother and navigate a city built on old memory. Where every ritual, invitation, and act of welcoming hides a strategy, and now his family's return has already begun to disturb the city's balance.
As public figures force the brothers into the spotlight and strange pressures begin rising beneath Ebonridge's polished surface, Iraklis must protect August while carving out a place for them in a community that would rather define them than understand them. By the time winter break begins, they have not won Ebonridge but through friendship, danger, and the first ties that will define everything to come, Iraklis has rooted them inside the city and they have become impossible to erase.