Seventeen-year-old Seraphina Vale thought the worst thing in her life was her father disappearing, leaving nothing but debts and a half-burned map to an old cabin in the Northridge Forest.She was wrong.Locals call the woods unclean, cursed, a place where no one returns.But when Seraphina follows the map and collapses by a crystal spring, she wakes up to-Nine impossibly beautiful beings who are definitely not human.There's Aurelian, the golden-haired and dangerously gentle one;Nyx, silent as shadow and twice as lethal;Soren, the sharp-tongued serpent shifter;and little Theo, soft-spoken with twitching animal ears...They tell her she belongs there-that she is the granddaughter of their long-lost master,and this enchanted house in the woods is her inheritance.And suddenly, her ordinary life turns into chaos:They argue because of her.They fight because of her.Some lose control of their powers... because of her.Worst of all-the most dangerous one among them leaves an unerasable mark on her skin under the moonlight.She only wanted a place to stay.But Seraphina has unknowingly stepped into a century-old bond,a prophecy that ties her fate with nine non-human beings who have waited ten long years for her return.One girl.Nine supernatural guardians.And a destiny that refuses to let her go.