SOME BLOODLINES SHOULD STAY BURIED Kairo Ayani never asked to inherit a war. But when shadows stalk his every step and blood begins to whisper beneath Pittsburgh's streets, he's pulled into an occult conspiracy older than the city itself.Chosen by the bloodline watchers to guard the Confluence Weave-the mysterious force threading beneath steel and stone-Kairo must claim the power he was born to protect. At his side is Manny, the one friend who refuses to let him face the darkness alone, and Celeste-an immortal seer whose visions carve through past and future.As the city's haunted veins awaken, so does something within Kairo-secrets surface, the Weave stirs, and his destiny refuses to be outrun. The time has come to stop running-before the spiral takes everything he loves.