Violet has spent centuries hiding what she truly is.
To the outside world, she is elegant, composed, and untouchable. But beneath the surface lives something far older and far more dangerous. A monster named Joanne. A darkness within her that can no longer be silenced.
When Violet arrives at Les Cruix Manor, she expects isolation, not attachment. Not Mavrin, the mysterious man who slowly breaks through centuries of carefully practiced restraint. Not his children, Lucas and Amari, who awaken pieces of humanity she thought had long since died within her.
But Helfor is rotting beneath its beauty.
Secrets buried for centuries begin clawing their way back to the surface. And as Violet’s carefully constructed life begins to fracture, so does the line between herself and the monster she has spent centuries trying to contain.
Joanne is no longer content with hiding.
And Violet may soon discover that some monsters are meant to be feared.
Others, you never see coming.
To the outside world, she is elegant, composed, and untouchable. But beneath the surface lives something far older and far more dangerous. A monster named Joanne. A darkness within her that can no longer be silenced.
When Violet arrives at Les Cruix Manor, she expects isolation, not attachment. Not Mavrin, the mysterious man who slowly breaks through centuries of carefully practiced restraint. Not his children, Lucas and Amari, who awaken pieces of humanity she thought had long since died within her.
But Helfor is rotting beneath its beauty.
Secrets buried for centuries begin clawing their way back to the surface. And as Violet’s carefully constructed life begins to fracture, so does the line between herself and the monster she has spent centuries trying to contain.
Joanne is no longer content with hiding.
And Violet may soon discover that some monsters are meant to be feared.
Others, you never see coming.
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Format
Kindle, 345 pages
Published
October 1, 2026 by Pinchwood Press
Violet has spent centuries hiding what she truly is.
To the outside world, she is elegant, composed, and untouchable. But beneath the surface lives something far older and far more dangerous. A monster named Joanne. A darkness within her that can no longer be silenced.
When Violet arrives at Les Cruix Manor, she expects isolation, not attachment. Not Mavrin, the mysterious man who slowly breaks through centuries of carefully practiced restraint. Not his children, Lucas and Amari, who awaken pieces of humanity she thought had long since died within her.
But Helfor is rotting beneath its beauty.
Secrets buried for centuries begin clawing their way back to the surface. And as Violet’s carefully constructed life begins to fracture, so does the line between herself and the monster she has spent centuries trying to contain.
Joanne is no longer content with hiding.
And Violet may soon discover that some monsters are meant to be feared.
Others, you never see coming.
To the outside world, she is elegant, composed, and untouchable. But beneath the surface lives something far older and far more dangerous. A monster named Joanne. A darkness within her that can no longer be silenced.
When Violet arrives at Les Cruix Manor, she expects isolation, not attachment. Not Mavrin, the mysterious man who slowly breaks through centuries of carefully practiced restraint. Not his children, Lucas and Amari, who awaken pieces of humanity she thought had long since died within her.
But Helfor is rotting beneath its beauty.
Secrets buried for centuries begin clawing their way back to the surface. And as Violet’s carefully constructed life begins to fracture, so does the line between herself and the monster she has spent centuries trying to contain.
Joanne is no longer content with hiding.
And Violet may soon discover that some monsters are meant to be feared.
Others, you never see coming.