Thorns of the Hollow Court

The iron gates of Blackthorn Manor groan open for Rowan Ashworth, pulling him back to an estate he swore never to return to, and into the shadowed dominion of Lord Cassian Thorne and his brooding consort, Kieran Voss. Once, Rowan fled the Hollow Court's demands on his bloodline. Now, summoned by the watchful Steward Maren and the enigmatic Sevryn, he must face the manor that has aged into ruin and a love he buried alive. Within Blackthorn's rotting halls, old promises resurface like bruises. Kieran, bound to Cassian by contract but tethered to Rowan by something far more dangerous, must choose between the safety of obligation and the ruin of devotion. As the Hollow Court's thorns tighten around their fragile household, Rowan and Kieran's daughter becomes the axis on which every secret turns. Every choice made in the manor's shadow exacts a toll, on legacy, on freedom, and on the small family clawing for light inside the dark. By the final chapter, one of them will have bled for the other's survival, and the Hollow Court will either claim its due or be forced to release what it was never meant to hold.