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📖 Paperback Edition — Thirteen nights. One immortal widow. A house that wants a bride.

Estate attorney Mara Ellison has closed uglier files before lunch. Drive up the coast, inventory a dead woman’s house, sell it before the cliff takes it. One afternoon.

Then she reads the codicil. In 1849 a solicitor named Eleanor Vane left Vane House to the woman at law who shall come to end this estate, on one condition: thirteen nights beneath its roof.

The tide takes the causeway. The house takes an interest. And the woman in the portraits upstairs, the same woman in 1720, 1790 and 1845, turns out to be very much at home.

Lady Sabine Vane has not touched anyone in a hundred and seventy-seven years. She has starved herself and her house for longer than Mara has been alive, because every woman who ever loved her is hanging on a wall in a white gown. She wants Mara gone by dark. She wants Mara more than blood.

Mara doesn’t run. Mara drafts terms. Three swallows, counted aloud. One word that stops everything. Nothing taken that is not asked for by name.

But the house has already put a red thread around her ring finger, and it deepens every night. It cannot make a want. It feeds on the ones you hide. And Sabine is hiding one that could cost Mara everything.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High Heat • FF (Sapphic) Gothic Vampire Romance by Maeve Hollow

Tropes: Vampire Romance • Gothic • Haunted House • Forced Proximity • Immortal × Mortal Age Gap • Ice Queen • Power Exchange • Written Terms • Touch Starved • Found Family

An ice-queen immortal, a lawyer who litigates a haunted house, a ghost wife who writes in the margins, and a guaranteed HEA.

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • 232 pages • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter, “The Fourteenth Night.”

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes, including a strap-on), blood, biting and vampire feeding, restraint and consensual power exchange, supernatural manipulation of consent (including a shared dream encounter and non-consensual blood consumption that the story treats as a violation), past non-consensual turning, drowning and death, an on-page attempt at self-sacrifice, and confinement in a haunted house. Intended for readers 18+.

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