Blackthorne Manor was built above four roads.

One runs north to the werewolves of Rusk Mountain. One leads west into vampire territory. The eastern road belongs to the fae, and the southern passage reaches the witches. For generations, the manor’s Keeper guarded those borders and preserved the peace among them.

Now the Keeper is gone.

Samantha Keating knows none of this when she purchases the neglected estate. She wants only a place where no one remembers the woman she was before the accident that killed her husband and daughter. But Alderwick is not the quiet refuge it appears to be, and its residents have been waiting to see whom Blackthorne will accept next.

As Samantha uncovers the truth beneath her home, she is drawn toward Owen Maddox, the immortal head of a powerful vampire house, while Sheriff Tristan Holt struggles to protect her without revealing feelings of his own.

To keep Fallow County from splintering, Samantha may have to become its new Keeper.

But neutrality is the first law of Blackthorne—and loving Owen could cost her the manor, the peace, and her place in the only town that has begun to feel like home.