THE AWAKENING: The Awakened of Beaumont — Book One

A Southern Gothic Paranormal Romance Where the Land Remembers

In Beaumont, Louisiana, five founding families have held power for over two centuries — power no one talks about, rooted in a pact made on an October night in 1793. A pact that required a sacrifice. A sixth family. Erased from the records. Written out of history. Bled dry so the others could thrive.

Now the sixth family's gift is waking up in a seventeen-year-old girl who was never supposed to know it existed.

Nola Marchand can feel the land breathing beneath her feet. She can sense the stolen gifts running through every founding family's veins — fire, earth, water, empathy, hearing. And when Cassian Deveraux, heir to the most powerful family in Beaumont, looks at her with alarm instead of arrogance, she knows she's not the only one who feels the shift.

The families are hunting for the source of the disturbance. Cassian is supposed to find her. Instead, he's teaching her to control a gift that could absorb every power they have.

But the old pact is failing. The gifts are fading. And the families must choose: honor a two-hundred-year-old debt, or break the girl who's come to collect.

Nola isn't running. Her mother ran, and it cost her everything.

This time, the sixth family is staying.

What Readers Will Find Inside

• A richly atmospheric Southern Gothic setting in bayou Louisiana
• A slow-burn paranormal romance between enemies bound by ancient debts
• A heroine who refuses to be erased — even by the families who tried
• Family secrets, elemental powers, and a centuries-old pact unraveling
• The first book in The Awakened of Beaumont trilogy

Content Note

This novel contains themes of family secrets, emotional manipulation, and references to parental abuse. Suitable for readers aged 16+.