DanielaTorresAlmeida
When Darcy Hart's home is damaged by a flood, she is forced to accept shelter at Acardi Manor, a house full of locked rooms, old music, careful rules, and grief no one has properly named.
At the centre of the manor is Ansel Acardi, dangerous, guarded, and precise about every boundary he refuses to cross. His younger brother Cassian hides pain behind jokes, their housekeeper Margaret sees everything, and the North Gallery holds a secret their dead mother left behind.
As Darcy begins sorting through the ruined pieces of her own life, Ansel is forced to face a sealed letter, a forgotten music room, and a bundle of pages tied in blue. Each discovery brings them closer, but in Acardi Manor, closeness must be asked for, permission is never assumed, and every open door has to open from the inside.
A gothic slow-burn romance about grief, consent, family secrets, music, and the difference between being saved and being free.