Beneath the Ashes

In the smoldering ruins of Victorian England's high society, Amara Vale is a woman built from secrets. Once a gifted copyist entangled in the political intrigues of London's elite, she has fled to the quiet town of Graywick. where fog hides the past and survival demands reinvention.

But Graywick has its own ghosts. At the heart of it stands Rowan Everhart, heir to the fire-scarred Ashbourne Hall and to the guilt that has haunted him since the night his mother and sister died. To the town, he is a recluse. To himself, a man beyond redemption.

When Amara's carefully concealed history collides with Rowan's haunted present, their wary acquaintance ignites into a dangerous connection neither can name. He sees in her the courage to face what burns inside him. She sees in him the one person who might understand what it costs to live beneath the weight of secrets.

But London hasn't forgotten her. And the men who once used Amara's skill to forge lies are ready to expose her truth, to destroy the woman she's become and the man who dares to care for her.

As the walls of Ashbourne whisper and the town begins to turn, love becomes both weapon and salvation.
Because some fires never die
and some hearts are meant to rise beneath the ashes.