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Maven Blackthorn returns to her Vermont hometown with her daughter, hoping to settle family affairs and leave again. Instead, an empty grave and a house full of secrets draw her back toward Ronan Croft, the first love she has spent twelve years avoiding. As attraction collides with threats, missing memories and disturbing encounters, Maven struggles to decide whom she can trust—and whether she can trust what she sees.
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Best approached as a disturbing gothic romance with a substantial horror plot. The romantic commitment is hopeful, but the final ambiguity and explicit sexual violence make this a poor fit for readers seeking a reassuring or low-trigger romance.
Maven Blackthorn returns to her Vermont hometown with her daughter, hoping to settle family affairs and leave again. Instead, an empty grave and a house full of secrets pull her into a mystery that keeps leading back to the powerful Croft family—and Ronan, the first love she has spent twelve years avoiding.
As old attraction collides with threats, missing memories and increasingly disturbing encounters, Maven struggles to decide whom she can trust—and whether she can trust what she sees.
This gothic romance moves into explicit sexual violence and supernatural horror. The couple reaches a hopeful commitment, while the final pages leave the nature of the horror unsettled. Content includes perceived sibling incest, coercive control, sexual assault, ritual murder and child endangerment.
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