The Crimson Veil

The dead whisper her name, but the living fear what she's becoming.

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Mara has spent her life hidden away in her family's countryside estate, plagued by a mysterious illness, missing memories, and nightmares of the Crimson Veil - a blood-soaked cavern where a strange woman calls to her through the dark. While her sister thrives in Regency society, Mara survives through books and the hope that her world might someday grow larger.

Everything changes when her family takes in an orphaned boy named Theodore.

With Theo's arrival, Mara's illness begins to disappear, allowing her a long-awaited entrance into society. But beneath glittering ballrooms and secret societies lies something sinister. After a betrayal leaves Mara poisoned and broken, she is pushed through a portal into another realm entirely - a world of impossible forests, ancient magic, and dangerous truths.

There, Mara discovers she was never truly ill. England itself was poisoning the magic within her.

Dragged into the realm of Riamh, where power rests in the hands of women, Mara uncovers the truth about her stolen past, her connection to the corruption spreading through Ivy Society, and the bloodline that marks her as both heir and threat.

Now caught between two realms, Mara must decide whether to return to the fragile life she once knew... or embrace the terrifying power growing inside her before it destroys everything she loves.