The house was supposed to be Eleanor Harrow's inheritance. Instead, it seems to have been waiting for her.
When Eleanor arrives at Harrow House after the unexplained death of her estranged aunt, she expects little more than dust, debts and the task of sorting through a crumbling estate. What she finds is a haunted manor inheritance mystery rooted in something far older than the house itself.
Hidden among her aunt's possessions is a silver locket untouched by age. The moment Eleanor puts it on, the house begins to change. Footsteps cross empty rooms. Doors open in the night. A veiled woman appears in mirrors and dreams. And the locket refuses to be removed.
In the isolated village of Ashen Hollow, frightened glances and unfinished warnings point towards a secret buried for generations. Records from 1823 tell of Margery Vale, a woman accused of making bargains that bound desperate people to promises they could never escape. Her execution should have ended the story.
It did not.
As Eleanor uncovers the truth behind the cursed family heirloom horror now fastened around her neck, she discovers that her own bloodline is tangled in Margery's fate. What first appears to be an ancestral bloodline curse becomes something more dangerous: an occult pact with trapped souls, unfinished debts and a presence that is steadily tightening its grip on Eleanor's mind and body.
Then Lucian Vale arrives.
Charming, unsettling and far too knowledgeable about the locket, Lucian claims his family has waited generations for its return. He offers answers, but every answer carries another threat, and Eleanor soon finds herself caught between a living man who wants the locket's power and a dead woman who wants something far more personal.
Part isolated village gothic mystery, part ghost possession supernatural thriller, The Locket of Ashen Hollow follows a determined woman trapped inside a haunted house where history is not finished, promises can outlive the people who made them, and surrender may cost more than death.
Eleanor must discover why the locket chose her before the thing awakening inside Harrow House decides that Eleanor Harrow is no longer its owner, but its vessel.
And somewhere beyond the whispers, something else may already be listening.
