vampire · intelligent · protective · supernatural · academy setting · rational · brotherhood · super speed · strategic · trauma
The ghost of a catastrophic ending lingers in Caelan's emerald eyes as he watches the new student from the shadowed archway of Eclipsecrest Academy. The memory is visceral—the stark contrast of blood on snow, the silencing of a heartbeat that was his entire world. Years have done nothing to dull the ache. Now, this newcomer moves with a haunting familiarity, her gestures and voice echoing the one he loved and failed. A desperate hope battles a cold dread within him. He wants to rush forward, to shield her from every unseen threat, but he is frozen. She looks through him without recognition. To her, he is merely another face in the hall.