Beyond The Mask: Some bonds survive the breaking (The Raven Hollow Series Book 1)

Beyond The Mask - Some bonds survive the breaking.Aveline Cross was forced to leave Raven’s Hollow.Forced to leave the boy she loved behind.But before Malcolm was taken from her completely — before Blackthorn swallowed him behind locked doors, sedation, mirrors, and silence — she made him a promise.She would come back.She would save him.Years later, that promise still haunts her. Malcolm is alive. Aveline can feel him in the dark, a thread stretched tight between them, pulling her back to the town that broke them both.But Blackthorn does not give up its secrets easily.The doctor who controls its halls knows Aveline is more than a memory. She is Malcolm’s trigger — the one person strong enough to wake him from the drugs and silence meant to erase him. To keep Malcolm under control, Aveline must be removed.So the hunt begins.As Aveline runs through fog, forest, and forgotten towns, Malcolm fights his way back from the darkness, driven by the promise he never forgot and the girl he never stopped loving.But another shadow watches from the trees.Jace is dangerous, silent, and obsessed with Aveline in ways even he does not fully understand. He wants her. He protects her. And when Malcolm begins to wake, Jace’s desire becomes another threat in a world already full of monsters.Inside Blackthorn, a hidden girl whispers through the vents. Beneath Raven’s Hollow, something ancient begins to stir. And the closer Aveline gets to saving Malcolm, the closer they all come to the truth buried beneath the Hollow.Raven’s Hollow remembers every lost child.Every broken promise.Every name buried in the dark.Aveline promised she would come back.Now she has.Beyond the Mask is Book One of The Raven Hollow Series — a dark psychological horror romance filled with obsession, trauma, secrets, masked monsters, forbidden bonds, and the terrifying things love can awaken. Read more