**Cassian**
The Ravencrest estate had one of the most extensive supernatural libraries in North America—three centuries of collected knowledge on vampire law, werewolf customs, human history, and the delicate balance between worlds. Cassian had spent countless hours in these rooms as a child, learning the intricacies of power and politics that governed his kind.
He’d never thought he’d be using that knowledge to find a way to save someone from his own family.
The library occupied the entire east wing of the mansion, floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with ancient texts, forbidden grimoires, and carefully preserved documents that most vampires would kill to access. Dust motes danced in the pale morning light filtering through tall windows as Cassian pulled volume after volume from the shelv
