

So You Think Your Sister's a Vampire?
Cassidy Findley's life in a quiet Iowa town shatters when her sister, Cadence, disappears after a mysterious festival and returns... changed. Strange men, cryptic conversations, and an inexplicable death force Cassidy to confront a terrifying truth: the mundane world she knew is a lie, and her beloved sister might now be a creature of the night. Can Cassidy uncover the secrets hidden in the shadows before she becomes the next victim of a world she never knew existed?The silence of the rural Iowa night used to be a comfort, a blanket wrapping around the small town of Shenandoah. But tonight, it felt like a shroud.
My name is Cassidy Findley, and until a few weeks ago, my biggest concern was whether my high school crush noticed me. Now, the quiet is broken by the frantic thumping of my own heart, a drumbeat against the paper-thin wall separating my room from my older sister Cadence's.
She's nineteen, home from college, and I thought I knew everything about her. Tonight, though, the hushed voices and strange phrases seeping through the drywall painted a different picture. Words like "Eidolon Festival" and a distant, unsettling laugh from her friend Drew Peterson.
I just wanted to watch a movie, but curiosity, a nagging, insistent itch, had me pressing my ear to the wall. What I heard next, Cadence reluctantly agreeing to go to some festival in Villisca—a town known for an axe murder—sent a shiver down my spine. I should have done something, should have screamed, told our parents. But I didn't. And now, everything is different. Terribly, horrifyingly different.
