Book excerpt: Felicitas Rebold has a haunting secret, but before she can tell her best friend, she mysteriously disappears. Unnerved by her disappearance her small town unites and searches for their missing teen. During the investigation, a peculiar Nocturnal Journal is discovered, hidden in her bedroom. The journal reveals cryptic messages along with detailed encounters with an enticing nighttime visitor. A week later Felicitas is found roaming the woods confused and unaware as to where she has spent the past seven days. With the help of her estranged grandmother, Felicitas finds the answers to the secrets shrouding her missing week and traces her roots back ten generations and makes a startling discovery that someone very close to her is not who they seem.