Asha Obi is a scientist who trusts facts, not folklore. But in the rotting salt marshes of the South, the past doesn't stay buried in the mud.
When her estranged grandmother dies, Asha returns to a decaying coastal estate to settle the property and leave. Instead, a supernatural storm traps her inside a rootwork shop that seems to breathe. A relentless assassin known as the Hound arrives, speaking with the voice of Asha's dead mother. To survive the night, she must abandon logic and strike a blood pact with the ghost of her great-grandfather.
The "curse" that claimed her parents was actually a sacrificial ward designed to hide her from a lethal conspiracy. Now that her blood has hit the threshold, the Organization is closing in to erase her lineage forever. Asha must master the songs of the marsh and the secrets of the ancestral ledger before she becomes another nameless echo.
In this atmospheric thriller of Southern Gothic dread and hidden magic, the price of survival is written in bone and salt.
Experience the awakening of the Obi line in the first book of the Veiled Lineages series.
