For ten generations, the Callaway family has guarded a secret buried in the Scottish Highlands, one old enough to predate memory itself. Each generation has stood watch, kept the silence, and passed the burden quietly to the next. But bloodlines do not stay obedient forever.
When a child is finally born who matches the old prophecy exactly, the secret that has slept for centuries begins to wake with him. What follows is not just a race to protect a hidden truth from the outside world, it is a war fought inside a single family, between the ones who want to keep the boy safe and the thing in his blood that has been waiting a very long time to be let out.
Some inheritances are not meant to be claimed. This one doesn't care.