For eighteen years, Davina was told a single, comforting lie: her grandfather, the legendary Sir George Salvador, died the day she was born. She grew up in the shadows of that absence, never questioning why her mother kept them running, or why the dark seemed to have eyes.But when a midnight call shatters the silence of their escape, the lie collapses. Sir George hasn't been dead for decades, he was the gravity holding the mysterious Woody Town together. And now, he truly is dead.Forced back to the sprawling Salvador estate for a funeral for a man she never knew, Davina finds herself trapped in a town where the residents whisper her name with fear and hunger. She isn't just a grieving granddaughter, she is a missing piece of a puzzle she doesn't understand. She realizes that her mother's secrets weren't meant to protect her, they were meant to hide her . In a world where men turn into monsters and the dead don't stay buried, Davina must uncover the truth of her bloodline before the feast begins.