Varcolac

A gothic horror novel steeped in Eastern European legend.

He came looking for his father. The town was waiting for him. Some secrets are meant to stay buried. . . .

Deep in the frozen Alaskan wilderness, somewhere between the mountains and the Canadian border, lies Kringa. No map shows it. No government record remembers its name. The locals at the last diner on the road fall silent when a stranger asks about it, and the sheriff warns every traveler to turn back. Those who go looking for Kringa don't come home.

Mathew Rees has every reason to stay away. But his father, a man he barely knew, has vanished and been declared dead, leaving behind a manor, a hand-drawn map, three ornate keys, and a lawyer's letter with one strange instruction: arrive, and wait one week for a meeting. Desperate for answers, Mathew ignores every warning and drives into the storm with only his loyal dog, Zeus, beside him.

At first, Kringa seems like any quiet mountain town. Its people are polite, a little odd, and always watching. But the longer Mathew stays, the less his new home makes sense. Strangers seem to know who he is. The caretaker asks questions Mathew can't answer. The house itself seems to be protecting him from something. And in the dark beyond the trees, something patient and hungry is waiting for the sun to go down.

The deeper Mathew digs into his father's past, the clearer it becomes that his arrival was no accident, and that the answers he came for may cost him far more than he is willing to pay. If he wants to leave Kringa alive, he will have to uncover what his family truly is, and decide who in this town, if anyone, he can trust.

Atmospheric, chilling, and brutal, Varcolac: The Curse of a Bloodline is a story of inheritance, hunger, and the secrets a father left behind.