The definitive prequel novel to the upcoming gothic horror series, The Unwilling Heiress.

Twenty years ago, Jack Cary was heavy metal royalty. Satan’s Orchard’s final album channelled something extraordinary. Then his bandmates died. One by one. And Jack crawled into a bottle and a series of beds to forget, trying to drown the dreams that won’t let him go.

Now Eleanor has found him. Again.

She shouldn’t be able to touch him. But she does—in his dreams, in his music. She’s not asking. She’s demanding. What she wants from Jack, he doesn’t understand. What terrifies him is that part of him already knows.

DI Lisa Harper’s investigation into ritual murders—where the deeper she digs, the more the rational world cracks open. Something is waking inside her. She doesn’t know what’s happening to her. She only knows she can’t stop it.

Some inheritance demands blood. Some awakening demands you survive it.