Vows Beneath Blackwater Hall

When her father’s debts are called in by the most feared family on the eastern coast, Elena Vale is given a choice that is no choice at all: marry Adrian Blackwood, the reclusive heir of Blackwater Hall, or watch her family be ruined. The Blackwoods own the cliffs, the harbor, the magistrates, and half the graves in town. Adrian is colder than the sea below his estate—beautiful, ruthless, and hidden behind rumors of blood, madness, and a first wife who never truly left the house. Elena enters the marriage as a sacrifice, determined to survive long enough to uncover what the Blackwoods are really hiding.

But Blackwater Hall is a living thing of locked doors, midnight footsteps, and whispered prayers behind velvet walls. Adrian keeps secrets with the same hand he uses to touch her, and every act of protection feels dangerously close to possession. As Elena is drawn into the family’s brutal empire, she discovers her marriage was arranged for reasons far darker than debt. Someone wants her inside Blackwater Hall. Someone believes her blood can expose an old crime—or bury it forever. And the man she should fear most may be the only one willing to burn the world before he lets her be taken from him.