For two years, Avery has been leaving the door open.
She brings coffee to a woman who never drinks it. She sits closer than the space requires. She says come with us like it costs nothing, knowing full well it costs Vera everything.
When a weekend at a remote lodge goes wrong in ways none of them have the vocabulary for, the careful distance Vera has maintained for three hundred years stops being a choice. Something is hunting the people she loves. And Avery already knows what Vera is. Has known for a while. Is asking her, quietly and without apology, to stop pretending otherwise.
Shadow Pine Lodge is a sapphic gothic vampire romance about wanting and being wanted by someone who knows exactly what they're reaching toward.
Slow burn. Found family. A centuries-old vampire learning, at last, to let something in.