Chapter 1

The season was changing, and the road through the mountains had grown cold. Our story begins where the map ends — at a place no traveler should stay past nightfall.

It was there that everything changed. A knock at the door. A light in the window. A voice that should not have been.

The people in the village would not speak of it. They only crossed the street when they saw him coming, and whispered behind their hands.

But curiosity is a fire that no one can put out. He had to know the truth — even if it cost him.