House of Salt and Bone

The house wants her blood. The man bound inside it wants something far more dangerous. Lenora Whitcombe returns to Hollowmere House for one reason: settle her mother's estate, claim her inheritance, and sever the last tie to a family legacy built on fear. The terms should be simple. Survive thirty nights inside the isolated manor. But Hollowmere is no ordinary house. Its corridors shift after dark. Its walls whisper with stolen memories. The rising tide cuts the island off from the mainland, and something beneath the foundations is waiting for the last Whitcombe heir to come home. Gideon has spent more than a century imprisoned within Hollowmere. Cold, formidable, and bound to secrets he cannot reveal, he is the only thing standing between Lenora and the hunger inside the house. He is also the one temptation she cannot afford. Every forbidden touch makes Gideon more solid. Every moment of intimacy weakens the chains holding the darkness back. As Lenora uncovers the truth behind her inheritance, the house turns violently jealous. It invades her memories, manipulates her fears, and punishes the man who would destroy himself to protect her. Lenora came to Hollowmere searching for a way out. Now she must decide whether trusting its captive protector will save them both, or transform her into the house's next living prisoner. A dark Gothic paranormal romance featuring a sentient haunted manor, forced proximity, a protective supernatural hero, dangerous touch, family secrets, and a romance powerful enough to make the house itself jealous.