Vows Beneath Blackwater Hall

When twenty-four-year-old genealogist Elara Vale is summoned to the storm-lashed coast of Blackwater Hall, she expects a lucrative commission restoring the archives of England’s most secretive noble family. Instead, she is handed a marriage contract bearing her late mother’s signature and ordered to wed Lord Dorian Thorne—the brutal, reclusive heir whose name is whispered alongside disappearances, blood feuds, and a fire that killed his first bride. Bound by a debt she never knew existed, Elara is trapped inside a decaying estate where every locked room breathes with scandal and every servant seems loyal to Dorian’s lies.

Dorian is cold, commanding, and dangerous enough to make fear feel intimate. Yet the deeper Elara is drawn into his shadowed world, the more she suspects he is protecting her from something worse than himself. The marriage is a bargain, the desire between them a battlefield, and the secrets hidden beneath Blackwater Hall reach far beyond adultery or murder. Because Elara was not brought there by chance. She is the last living key to a buried dynasty, and if Dorian cannot keep her by his side, the family that bought her vows will carve the truth out of her blood.