The Things We CARRY BACK - Jennifer Lynn Phillips

You can go home again... but you won't be the same person who left.

Juliana Yannev travels to Romania searching for answers about her past-but what she finds is far more dangerous than she ever imagined.

Drawn into the powerful and mysterious Yannev family, she is welcomed into a world of wealth, beauty, and dark secrets. Behind the castle walls lies a hidden society of vampires and lycans, bound by fragile alliances and centuries-old betrayals. What begins as curiosity quickly turns into a fight for survival.

When Juliana falls for Paul, a human caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, he becomes a liability-and a target. In a brutal act meant to enforce loyalty and control, he is taken from her, shattering everything she believed about love, family, and trust.

But the truth runs deeper than she ever expected.

Her father isn't who she thought he was.

The life she knew was never real.

And the power awakening inside her may change her forever.

As tensions erupt into a violent clash between vampires and lycans, Juliana must make an impossible choice-one that will define who she becomes and where her loyalty lies.

She doesn't leave Romania unchanged. She escapes it.

But some things don't stay buried.

When the past resurfaces-alive, altered, and more dangerous than before-Juliana must confront a terrifying reality:

Some truths don't set you free... they change you.

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