Haunting Adeline

About this book

Wren Ashby didn't expect an inheritance. She certainly didn't expect a house.When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her Ravenscar Hall, a crumbling Georgian manor perched above the Yorkshire cliffs, it feels like exactly the fresh start Wren needs. Her marriage is over. Her mother is gone. London holds nothing for her but the shape of everything she's lost. A house on the edge of the moors, cut off by fog and a single unlit road, sounds less like isolation and more like peace.It isn't peace. It's an inheritance of a different kind entirely.The front door is open on her very first night, though she locked it herself. Roses appear on the step, cut days before and left with unsettling care. Someone moves through her private rooms and puts everything back almost, but not quite, correctly. And in a hollow space behind the library shelves, Wren finds proof that someone has been watching her since before she ever arrived: drawings of her face, drafts of letters, a photograph taken while she stood, unknowing, at the edge of her own lawn.His name is Corvin Blackwood, and he doesn't deny any of it.What he offers instead is a confession that should frighten her far more than it does, a family obligation stretching back two centuries, a devotion inherited rather than chosen, and a promise made to Wren's own grandmother, decades before Wren was born, that he has already, in loving Wren, begun to break. He is not the only danger in this story. But he is the one closest to her, the one whose restraint keeps failing at exactly the moments she needs to trust it most, and the one she cannot make herself send away.As Wren digs through her grandmother's journals, a sealed chapel, and a parish register that has quietly recorded the same tragedy across generation after generation, she uncovers a truth considerably darker than a single watcher at the edge of the trees. Someone else has been waiting far longer than Corvin has, nursing a claim on this house, and on her, that predates her birth by half a century. And he is done waiting.Haunting Adeline: A Dark Obsession Duet is a slow burn, gothic romantic suspense set on the wild Yorkshire coast, for readers who want their love stories tangled up with real dread: a heroine who stops trusting her own judgment before she stops trusting the man responsible for it, a hero whose devotion is inseparable from his danger, and a mystery that reaches back two centuries to explain exactly what's waiting for her now. This is Book One of a two part story and ends on a cliffhanger.