





By Blood and Ancient Bonds
Nestled among the rolling hills, the Whiteford estate rose like a relic from another age—grand, mysterious, and steeped in whispers of the past.
To outsiders, it promised a new beginning for Salem and Scarlet Whiteford and their three children. But for Salem—a novelist whose imagination often eclipsed reality—the ancestral home was more than a residence; it was a stage. A setting where he could script the perfect family narrative, word by word, as though life itself could be edited.
Beneath its sunlit windows and elegant decay, however, the house hid a darker truth. The walls hummed with memories, and the air carried echoes of lives long gone. As the children struggled through the turbulence of adolescence, they found themselves caught in a strange limbo—between their father’s obsession and their mother’s awakening, between past and present, fiction and fact.
Within the Whiteford estate, time bends, secrets fester, and identity fractures. And in trying to escape the ghosts of those who came before them, the family may only succeed in becoming ghosts themselves.
Nestled among the rolling hills, the Whiteford estate rose like a relic from another age—grand, mysterious, and steeped in whispers of the past.
To outsiders, it promised a new beginning for Salem and Scarlet Whiteford and their three children. But for Salem—a novelist whose imagination often eclipsed reality—the ancestral home was more than a residence; it was a stage. A setting where he could script the perfect family narrative, word by word, as though life itself could be edited.
Beneath its sunlit windows and elegant decay, however, the house hid a darker truth. The walls hummed with memories, and the air carried echoes of lives long gone. As the children struggled through the turbulence of adolescence, they found themselves caught in a strange limbo—between their father’s obsession and their mother’s awakening, between past and present, fiction and fact.
Within the Whiteford estate, time bends, secrets fester, and identity fractures. And in trying to escape the ghosts of those who came before them, the family may only succeed in becoming ghosts themselves.