Sophia Langston was not your typical freshman. For one, she didn't need an alarm clock to wake up; the soft hum of the evening twilight was enough to stir her from her sleep. And while most college students spent their days navigating crowded classrooms and bustling coffee shops, Sophie did so under the cover of darkness.

Her skin was pale, but not in a sickly way. It was luminous, like moonlight on still water. Her eyes, a deep amber that flickered like candlelight when the sun dipped below the horizon, were always the first thing people noticed. That, and her uncanny ability to disappear into the shadows, slipping through crowded hallways unnoticed, even in the middle of the day.

Sophie had lived centuries hidden from humanity's gaze, learning to blend in, to be a ghost among them. But now, with her family's centuries-old mansion tucked away in a remote forest and her parents' approval, she had decided to attend college despite her brother 's discontent over her mingling with lower beings or so he thought.

She'd heard it was a place where one could truly reinvent themselves and where dreams come true, a place where people, perhaps, didn't ask too many questions.