Three generations preyed upon by pure evil. Two lost souls drawn to each other in the darkness. One compelling story of love, loyalty, and betrayal.

Decades of death and deceit come to a head in a desolate Essex seaside town in October 1999.

While everyone else is worrying about the millennium bug, Alex Wilde is staring into a sea she hasn’t seen for a month. She’s finally home and it’s time to resurrect her life: get a job, get somewhere to live that isn’t her uncle’s old haunted house, and get her teenage daughter back.

But Coldharbour is a town of shadows and Power, the hereditary magic running through the veins of the blessed (or cursed) few, including Alex.

When she meets Elizabeth, the intriguing new owner of the run-down café on the promenade, they stumble straight into a paranormal murder mystery that even the police can’t solve. As Alex digs deeper, she starts to unravel the sinister family secrets that have stalked her since she was a child.

Battling demons and burying ghosts, Alex will need all of her Power, courage, and Wilde ingenuity to survive.

December 2000: Alex Wilde is more than ready for a quiet Coldharbour Christmas with Elizabeth Black, ex-assassin and love of her life.

After all, Alex can’t even see ghosts any more, let alone heal on command or banish demons.

Except …

She is dreaming again.

She dreams of vengeful spirits and the long-since Dead and the ruins of a church that should still be standing.

When Elizabeth lets slip something that will change their relationship forever, Alex wonders how much she’s been taking her non-Powerful life for granted.

But there’s no time to stop, let alone panic, when a mystery sickness sweeps through their little seaside town: a sickness with fangs. Coldharbour grows silent and dark when it should be alive with Christmas carols and festive lights, leaving Alex and Elizabeth to contend with something they had never even considered:

Vampires are real.

And they are taking a very great interest in Alex’s family.

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