The Brides Beneath
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MatureComplete Fri, Oct 31, 20252h 39m
In the shuttered east wing of Hollowspire Hall, the eldest daughter is kept apart, taught to wait, and told nothing. Yet the walls whisper, and the floorboards conceal notes in fading hands - fragments of a sisterhood that should not be. As her eighteenth year draws near, Cordelia Corven must learn what it means to be a bride of the house... and why none who came before her were ever seen again.
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