First published 2025
Poe Markham is a librarian with one real assignment: find out why Thornchapel was the last place her mother was seen alive, twelve years ago. She takes a job cataloging the manor's crumbling private library, tells herself to keep her distance from Auden Guest, the troubled man who owns the place, and gets to work. Thornchapel does not cooperate. The fog-wrapped moors house buries her in secrets, old ones and new ones, and pulls her into the orbit of Auden and his circle of friends before she can stop it. Worse, she falls toward St. Sebastian, the man Auden hates most, beautiful and restless and impossible to ignore. The three of them circle each other through lantern-lit rituals and old mysteries until something gives. What breaks open between Poe, Auden, and St. Sebastian is filthy and sacred at once, pleasure wound tight around pain. Beneath all of it, Thornchapel is building toward something. The house has a fate stored up for them, and it will either crown them or burn them down. This is the first of four books in the Thornchapel series.
Genres: romance, mystery, adult, adult-fiction, gothic, dark-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, gothic, mysterious, sensual, suspenseful
Tropes: love-triangle, mystery-unraveling, reverse-harem, slow-burn
Setting: Thornchapel, Moors
368 pages · Paperback · Bloom Books
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content