The Ninth House

THE NINTH HOUSEFor three hundred and seventeen years, the Ninth House has been dead.Its manor burned. Its bloodline scattered. Its name buried beneath an ancient Covenant created to keep wolves and vampires from destroying one another-and from exposing their world to humanity.Then Lena Voss begins dreaming of blood.She wakes barefoot beside an open fifth-floor window with mud between her toes, someone else’s blood in her mouth, and memories of a burning manor she has never seen. Soon, nine dark marks begin surfacing beneath her skin.Her mother knows what they mean.And then Lucien Vale walks into her office.Cold skin. No heartbeat. Gray eyes Lena already knows from her dreams.Lucien is a vampire old enough to remember the night the Ninth House fell.Worse-he was there.Lena has spent her life restoring old buildings, reading the scars hidden inside stone, wood, and forgotten foundations. But the ruins waiting for her now are not just architectural. They are written into her blood.Her family name was once Veyne.Her ancestors belonged to the lost Ninth House, a wolf bloodline feared not because it was meant to rule the supernatural world, but because it was created to make sure no one else could.Now the Eight remaining Houses know Lena exists.They know the bloodline survived.And they want the Ninth House buried again.Pulled into a hidden world of territorial wolves, immortal vampires, blood memory, ancient betrayals, and generations of secrets, Lena discovers that the peace between the Houses may never have been freedom at all. The Covenant has rules. The bloodlines have rules. The Houses have rules.And Lena may be the one person born to break them.At the center of everything stands Lucien.He should be her enemy.His kind helped destroy her House. His past is tied to the woman whose memories are awakening inside Lena’s blood. Every instinct tells her that trusting him could be dangerous.