THE LEGACY BENEATH…

It is 1993—a liminal year between the Cold War’s fading shadow and the dawn of the digital age, when payphones still tethered people to the world and small towns like Everville remained isolated in their own mythologies.

In the fall of 1993, Everville sits hidden deep in the hollows of Appalachia—a place where ancient stories and superstitions never die; they simply wait for the right blood to stir them awake. When Luther Blackwood, heir to an occult dynasty, awakens the Dragon Lines beneath the deserted Fox Ridge Nuclear Facility, the mountains begin to whisper once more, and what answers is older than the town itself. With the return of these ancient veins of power, the Shadow Folk emerge—dark, shapeshifting beings that feed on fear and despair. Everville’s folklore turns deadly: shadows twist in the treetops like watchful serpents, and the woods echo with footsteps that do not belong to the living.

At the center stands Deneen Kingsley, age 20, who has always sensed more than most—a keen awareness of fleeting energies, the whispers of spirits, and the land’s subtle breath. Only one creature stands between her and the rising darkness: Sunny, a golden retriever with a knowing gaze and an aura spoken of in the oldest mountain legends. Locals tell of Sun Down’s Hounds, spirit guardians born in the rift between fire and earth, omens of protection and upheaval. With the help of her estranged childhood friend, Ethan Rivers—a covert agent lost in secrets—Deneen must face a lineage tangled with magic, blood debts, and buried horror. Together, they must solve the riddles of the Dragon Lines before Everville’s folklore shifts from story to prophecy, to feast. In these mountains, the past never truly disappears—it waits for the right girl, and the right hound, to come home.