Mira Hale never wanted Vesper House.

When an impossible key arrives before the death notice, Mira is pulled back to Alderwick, a rain-dark town where family promises are treated like contracts and old houses remember what people try to bury.

To keep Vesper House from falling into the wrong hands, Mira must survive seven nights inside its walls. But the house is not simply haunted. It is tied to broken vows, hidden rooms, and a family system built to turn love into control.

Callan Voss, the architect everyone warns her not to trust, may be the only person who understands the house’s secrets. But his family name is carved into the very architecture Mira has been told to fear.

As locked rooms begin to wake and old promises demand payment, Mira must decide what is more dangerous: the house that remembers her, or the people who want her to forget herself.

A gothic small-town romantic suspense about inheritance, consent, buried family secrets, and a love that must be freely chosen.