Consuming Shadows

by Hanga E. Pavel

After months of despair, eighteen-year-old Elodie Smith’s life changes overnight. She finds herself at her grandmother’s gloomy estate, hidden behind overgrown gardens and misty woods. Thornhill is nothing like the sort she has seen before. It’s captivating, yet inked with a creeping sense of dread.

Elodie’s arrival quickly arouses Thornhill’s mysteries, and they drive her to seek answers about her family’s buried past. However, the route she’s on is more dangerous than she expected, and when she suddenly finds herself on the threshold of death, to her surprise, it’s none other than the dreadful ward of her grandmother who comes to her rescue. The beautiful yet cold-hearted Preston Davenport—who seems to dislike her on sight—now has an offer Elodie might just have to accept.

As the two form an alliance to uncover the dark and sinister forces haunting the manor, they are promptly doomed to face their own secrets of the past…

And what they find there might just be the ruin of them both.

359 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

Hi! Thank you for stopping by. I'm mostly active on Instagram where you can find me under @authorhangaepavel. Feel free to dm me. I love crushing on morally grey characters with my fellow readers and share sneak peeks from my upcoming novels.

Hanga E. Pavel is a self-published author from a small country in the middle of Europe. She started writing stories for her younger cousins when she was around seven years old. She always dreamt of getting her stories out into the big world. Her debut novel, Our Darkest Summer, is a new adult, mystery-romance set in a small town in Maine. In the future, you can expect to read mysteries, fantasies, and romance novels from her.

When she isn’t working on her next story, she spends quality time with her partner, wanders in nature, plays chess or board games with her mom, or hangs out with her bunnies.