House of Briars

*The Briars didn't just build houses. They built walls.*

When real estate magnate Lucian Briar dies suddenly in his own boardroom, the empire he spent forty years constructing should pass smoothly to his three children. But the will contains a shock. The family learns that Lucian's final days were not calm-they were a confession waiting to happen.

As his widow, three adult children, and a tight circle of insiders gather under the same roof, old wounds tear open. A secret son emerges from the wrong side of the river. A hidden ledger exposes decades of lies. And a detective who never believed in accidents begins asking questions no one wants answered.

Over the course of six months, the House of Briars will crack. Lovers become liabilities. Friends become witnesses. And one question burns beneath every whispered conversation: Did someone want him dead?

For readers of The Nest and viewers of Succession - a story of love twisted by obsession, friendship broken by betrayal, and a family that learns too late that some thorns grow from the inside.