After running away from her strict religious home in Kansas to chase her dreams in Los Angeles, an eighteen-year-old hitchhiker thinks she’s gotten lucky when a quiet stranger offers her a ride. What begins as a chance encounter slowly turns into a nightmare as she discovers the unsettling man hiding a violent past—and realizes escaping him may be impossible.
A much needed week getaway with your best friend is supposed to be the perfect escape until his exhaustion turns into strange behavior, unsettling mood shifts, and the creeping feeling that something about Evan is very, very wrong.
In 1932 Mississippi, the sheltered daughter of a cult leader finds a wounded stranger bleeding at the edge of her father’s isolated religious commune. Taking Remmick inside should be an act of Christian mercy. Instead, it invites hunger, temptation, and something ancient through the gates. As blood becomes intimacy and salvation begins to resemble possession, Y/N must decide which is more dangerous: the faith that raised her, or the vampire teaching her how good sin can feel.
