Embers of the Underworld

Wren Calloway has built a quiet life among the ledgers and whispered histories of Ashen Hollow, but the arrival of Lucian Thorne shatters every careful boundary she has drawn. As the reluctant heir to Ravenscar Manor, a cliffside estate bound by a generations-old curse, Lucian has returned to the town that drove his family into exile, seeking the one person who might know how to break the darkness consuming his bloodline. His sister, Seraphina, is already lost to it, her mind fractured by the same shadows that took their mother, and Alistair Thorne, the elder who has fought the curse longest, warns that time is running out. Wren is drawn into the Thornes' orbit alongside her spirited sister Pippa, the town's steadfast Jasper Cole, and the enigmatic Eleanor Voss, whose knowledge of the manor's history is deeper than she admits. As desire ignites between Wren and Lucian, the curse begins to stir, feeding on the very connection they are forbidden to share. Each secret uncovered draws them closer to the truth buried beneath Ravenscar's foundations, and to a choice that will determine whether the embers of the Underworld consume them both or forge something unbreakable from the ashes.