First published 2025
Delphine Dansey has always worn her heart exposed, chasing love and glamour with both hands open. Rebecca Quartey long ago buried hers, sealing off every soft thing inside herself behind locked doors. As children, the two of them bickered constantly. Now they are back at Thornchapel, and something between them refuses to stay buried. Delphine pulls at Rebecca the way fog pulls at lantern light. Rebecca resists, then resists again, and still finds herself unraveling. Around them, their circle of friends is coming apart too, undone by a year of lust and jealousy and choices made without counting the cost. Thornchapel itself seems to be splitting at the seams, its rituals and moors and old hungers pressing in from every side. This is the third book in Sierra Simone's Thornchapel series, and it lands like a reckoning. All that the characters planted in desire and pain now demands to be gathered in. Delphine and Rebecca must face what they have grown between them, what their friends have grown, and what the place itself has always wanted from them. The harvest is not gentle. Neither is the love.
Genres: literary-fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance, dark-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, intimate, lyrical, tension-filled
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, slow-burn, unresolved-tension
Setting: Thornchapel
496 pages · Paperback · Bloom Books
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content