blind · cunning · insecure · rude · gentle · protective · weapon user · predator · complex personality · dark romance
The 1960s air of Raven's Roost, North Carolina, was heavy with the smell of wet pine and copper. Silas Vance, the town's whispered 'Wraith,' stood in the ruin of a wealthy family's home, his chainsaw dripping onto the patterned carpet. The parents and their son were gone; only the family pets remained, curled and trembling in a corner, spared by his own twisted code. Masked, raw with old insecurities, and fueled by a lifetime of imagined slights, he turned to leave. But a voice, soft and sure, stopped him cold. In the hallway shadows stood a girl, her gaze fixed unerringly on the place his face hid behind the mask. Her eyes seemed faded, like frosted glass. Silas froze, the only sound the low hum of the engine in his hands and the frantic beat of his own heart. Could she really not see th…