Blood Covenant

Synopsis

Some bloodlines weren't meant to survive.Emily Lyles thought escaping the church she was raised in meant leaving the past behind. But when she and Kade are forced to stay in Branch after finding a badly mangled body at Rosehill, Em realizes the haunted motel has been waiting for her all along.A murdered woman. A room no one should have been using. A hidden well beneath the motel. And photographs of Em's sister appearing where they shouldn't.Every clue pulls Em deeper into a history older and darker than Covenant itself—a buried legacy of bloodlines, purity, religious control, and women sacrificed to secrets no one was ever meant to uncover. But the more Em learns, the more personal the horror becomes.Her sister was touched by this place. Her birth mother knew its danger. And Em herself may not be an outsider to the darkness at all. Something at Rosehill knows her name.As Em and Kade race to uncover the truth behind Helen's murder, they find themselves trapped between a killer desperate to resurrect old rituals and a supernatural presence that believes Em has already been marked. To end it, Em must face the truth of where she came from—and decide once and for all that origin is not the same as destiny.