Tessa Kane isn't your average detective—she hunts the shadows no one else dares touch. When women vanish near Blackthorne Castle, a crumbling relic on the Yorkshire moors, she dives in, armed with grit and a blade etched with blood. What she finds is no mere mystery: a dungeon of chains, a centuries-old pact, and Edmund Blackthorne, a lord whose hunger for torture—rape, flaying, murder—still feeds the stones. Marked by his touch, her body breaking under the weight, Tessa fights to banish him, aided by spirits of the damned. But victory comes at a cost, and the locket's return whispers of more horrors to come. For fans of unrelenting terror, this is the start of a series that doesn't flinch.

Content Warning: Contains graphic violence, disturbing themes, and explicit depictions of historical trauma—reader discretion advised.