After moving to Scotland to start a new life, Elena Carter never expected her destiny to change on a stormy night when her car breaks down near the infamous Blackwood Manor. That is where she meets Adrian Blackwood — a dangerously handsome billionaire with a charm that is impossible to resist and secrets darker than the night. Within months, Elena becomes his wife and moves into the mysterious mansion perched on a lonely cliff above the sea. But Blackwood Manor is not just a home. It is a place filled with whispers, shadows, and terrifying secrets. Every night at 3:13 AM, Elena hears footsteps in empty hallways. Doors open by themselves. And somewhere inside the mansion, a woman can be heard crying. As Elena begins to uncover the truth, she discovers something horrifying. She is not the first woman Adrian has married. And none of his previous wives were ever seen again. Trapped inside a mansion haunted by the past, Elena must uncover the truth before it’s too late. Because the man she loves may not just be hiding secrets… He may be the reason those women never survived. And Elena might be the next victim of the curse of Blackwood Manor.

When her mother marries into nobility, Elara Ashwood finds herself living under the same roof as Sebastian Voss — the coldest, most arrogant Duke in all of England. He dismisses her. She defies him. But in stolen hours beside a dying fire, with nothing but silence and secrets between them, something far more dangerous than hatred begins to grow. Society has rules. Their family has expectations. And forbidden love has consequences. But some pulls are stronger than propriety — and Sebastian Voss has never lost a battle he decided to fight.

A body. A carved word. A conspiracy that reaches all the way to the top. Detective Nora Vass has forty-eight hours before the people who killed Marcus Greer realize she's found the thread — and pull it out from under her. The Weight of Clean Hands. Some men wash their hands. Others drown in the river.