The House of Ash and Roses

A house that should not exist. A rose that speaks her name. A shadow wearing her face.

Seventeen-year-old Elara Vale makes a living collecting death-tokens from abandoned places, but when she finds a crimson rose growing from the ashes of a dead man's fireplace, the flower calls her home.

Beyond the rain waits the House of Ash and Roses, an ancient estate hidden behind iron gates, silver briars and lanterns that burn without flame. Its keeper, Gaia Aurelia, knows Elara's name before Elara gives it-and warns her not to answer the shadow trapped inside the tower.

But the House has already opened its doors.

Inside its walls are rooms that remember, roses that watch, and a sealed chamber built to contain a truth the kingdom tried to bury. To survive, Elara must discover why the House chose her, what her shadow has become, and whether buried things grow roots... or teeth.