A girl living in fear, monsters, dark family secrets, romance, and a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Alva has lived in fear of her father ever since she believed that he had killed her mother, everyone in town thinks he did it. It doesn’t help that he is so secretive. Her father and her are in charge of monitoring the water levels of the loch... but when upon one of her attempts to escape her home Alva runs into a monster, a pale monster with sharp teeth... and soon finds that her father is being arrested and now that she knows there are monsters escaping from the loch and coming after the townspeople she will have to stay behind and stop them... if only she could get the townspeople to believe her. Soon its up to her, her friend and crush Ren, and her childhood friend Gavan to try and stop these monsters before everyone is killed. However there are constant roadblocks... with the fact that Gavan’s father who was in love with Alva’s mother has some perverse notion to turn Alva into her mother and keep her, and the fact that these vampires haven’t killed Alva... This was definitely an interesting and heartbreaking read, especially that last chapter. My heart just broke a bit for the ending. I didn’t expect this to be a tragedy but my god that last chapter just... :(. I was surprised that this turned out to be a vampire story but it was definitely a fun take on it. Set in a small town, with family secrets, and soft romance. If you’re looking for a vampire story with soft romance, tragedy, set in a small atmospheric village, then this is for you.