Underneath the Black Roses

Grief is a cage. Love is a lie. And some flowers only grow where the dead are buried...

Yazmin's life has never been great. After a childhood marred by trauma, seventeen-year-old Yazmin is placed with a cold, distant foster family who seem to barely tolerate her. Haunted by her past traumas and battling the murky edges of her mental illness, she drifts through her days in a fog of silence-until a mysterious invitation to a moonlit ball changes everything.

There, she meets him: a beautiful, captivating stranger who makes her feel seen for the first time in years. When he appears at her window days later and offers a midnight picnic, she follows. And when he asks her to run away with him to his secluded estate deep in the woods... she says yes.

At first, the manor is enchanting. The black roses in the garden never wilt. The portraits on the stairwell whisper of eternal romance. And her mysterious host is attentive, poetic... intoxicating. But beneath the surface, something is terribly wrong.

She wakes with bruises she doesn't remember getting. The mirrors reflect things that shouldn't be there. The roses seem... alive.

As the truth unravels, Yazmin is forced to confront a horrifying truth: the man who made her feel alive again may be feeding on her-body and soul. And worse, she may not be the first.