Scarlet Ink

De: Darlene Zagata

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the heart of Salem's historic district stands the Blackmoor Memorial Library, a Gothic revival building that has weathered three centuries of New England storms. Its towering spires pierce the night sky like ancient spears, and its stained glass windows cast ethereal patterns across the cobblestone streets below. To most visitors, it's simply a repository of knowledge, a quiet sanctuary where scholars and students come to lose themselves in dusty tomes and forgotten histories.

But libraries, like people, have their secrets.

Evelyn Thorne has been the head librarian at Blackmoor Memorial for longer than anyone remembers— though exactly how long depends on whom you ask. The elderly patrons who've known her for decades swear she hasn't aged a day, while newer visitors assume she's simply blessed with good genes and an excellent skincare routine. They don't notice how her pale fingers never quite warm to the touch, or how she seems to glide rather than walk through the narrow aisles between towering bookshelves.

They certainly don't know that she feeds on more than just literature.

For Evelyn is a creature caught between two worlds: the daylight realm of card catalogs and reading recommendations, and the shadow realm of supernatural predators and ancient hunts. She has spent decades perfecting the art of being unremarkable, of blending into the background of human society while satisfying her darker needs with careful discretion. Her territory is knowledge, her weapon is wisdom accumulated over centuries of existence, and her greatest challenge is maintaining the delicate balance between her monstrous nature and her genuine love for the written word.

But when a series of mysterious deaths begins plaguing Salem, each victim found drained of blood with rare books missing from their personal collections, Evelyn realizes that someone—or something—is hunting in her territory. The carefully constructed life she's built among dusty shelves and quiet whispers is about to be shattered by a mystery that will force her to confront not only her own dark past, but the possibility that some secrets are too dangerous to remain buried in the depths of even the most hidden archives.

Welcome to Blackmoor Memorial Library. Mind the closing time.