Ashes of The White Rose

Ashes of the White Rose
(It's a really short story.)

When Clara Wren returns to Blackwater House after her mother's death, she expects dust and grief- not Gabriel Blackthorne, the brooding caretaker bound to the crumbling estate.

The house is steeped in secrets: roses that seem to remember, letters that hint at dangerous bargains, and a stranger who leaves warnings in the snow. The deeper Clara digs, the more she realizes her inheritance is not just land and stone-it's a legacy of grief, truth buried in silence, and a love she should fear but cannot resist.

Gabriel is both protector and temptation, but keeping the house means keeping him-and the darkness tied to its past. Selling it may free her. Staying could consume her.

In this gothic dark romance, love is a thorned rose: beautiful, dangerous, and impossible to forget.