Human scholar
Aurelia Devereux
A meticulous archivist in her late twenties, Aurelia has spent her career in climate-controlled university libraries. The baron's offer—catalog a private collection in a remote castle for six months—is the chance of a lifetime. She is disciplined, scholarly, and prone to talking to herself when she reads. She does not believe in vampires, monsters, or anything the Gothic novels she catalogs might suggest. She is about to learn otherwise.








