Night Dwellers: Tne Moon-Eyed People Were Never Human. The Alien Harvest Series, #3

The Night Dwellers: The Moon-Eyed People Were Never HumanDeep in the ancient hollows of the Ozarks, where the mountains swallow sunlight and secrets fester in the soil, something has awakened. For centuries, the Cherokee spoke of the Moon-Eyed People-small, pale beings with luminous eyes who shunned the day and built stone cities before humans ever claimed the land. Legend called them lost kin. History dismissed them as myth.
They were never human. When archaeologist Dr. Elena Voss uncovers a perfectly preserved underground chamber sealed for over a thousand years, she expects relics. What she finds is far older-and far hungrier. Eyes like polished moonstones watch from the dark. Whispers slither through the rock. And something with too many joints and not enough skin begins to wear the faces of the living. As the nights grow longer, the Night Dwellers emerge.
They do not hunt. They replace. Neighbors vanish. Families fracture. Entire towns begin to change-smiling a little too wide, sleeping with their eyes open, speaking in voices that echo from beneath the earth. Elena's only ally is a reclusive Cherokee elder who warns that the Moon-Eyed were never exiled. They were waiting. Now the eclipse is coming. And when the final light dies, the real owners of these mountains will reclaim what was always theirs.
Some bloodlines don't end.  They burrow.  They wear you. They remember. The Night Dwellers-because some legends don't want to be found.  They want to wear your skin under the moon.