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The Anchor and the Lock #1
House of Salt and Bone
The house wants her blood. The man bound inside it wants something far more dangerous.
Lenora Whitcombe returns to Hollowmere House for one reason: settle her mother’s estate, claim her inheritance, and sever the last tie to a family legacy built on fear.
The terms should be simple. Survive thirty nights inside the isolated manor.
But Hollowmere is no ordinary house.
Its corridors shift after dark. Its walls whisper with stolen memories. The rising tide cuts the island off from the mainland, and something beneath the foundations is waiting for the last Whitcombe heir to come home.
Gideon has spent more than a century imprisoned within Hollowmere. Cold, formidable, and bound to secrets he cannot reveal, he is the only thing standing between Lenora and the hunger inside the house. He is also the one temptation she cannot afford.
Every forbidden touch makes Gideon more solid.
Every moment of intimacy weakens the chains holding the darkness back.
As Lenora uncovers the truth behind her inheritance, the house turns violently jealous. It invades her memories, manipulates her fears, and punishes the man who would destroy himself to protect her.
Lenora came to Hollowmere searching for a way out.
Now she must decide whether trusting its captive protector will save them both, or transform her into the house’s next living prisoner.
A dark Gothic paranormal romance featuring a sentient haunted manor, forced proximity, a protective supernatural hero, dangerous touch, family secrets, and a romance powerful enough to make the house itself jealous.
Lenora Whitcombe returns to Hollowmere House for one reason: settle her mother’s estate, claim her inheritance, and sever the last tie to a family legacy built on fear.
The terms should be simple. Survive thirty nights inside the isolated manor.
But Hollowmere is no ordinary house.
Its corridors shift after dark. Its walls whisper with stolen memories. The rising tide cuts the island off from the mainland, and something beneath the foundations is waiting for the last Whitcombe heir to come home.
Gideon has spent more than a century imprisoned within Hollowmere. Cold, formidable, and bound to secrets he cannot reveal, he is the only thing standing between Lenora and the hunger inside the house. He is also the one temptation she cannot afford.
Every forbidden touch makes Gideon more solid.
Every moment of intimacy weakens the chains holding the darkness back.
As Lenora uncovers the truth behind her inheritance, the house turns violently jealous. It invades her memories, manipulates her fears, and punishes the man who would destroy himself to protect her.
Lenora came to Hollowmere searching for a way out.
Now she must decide whether trusting its captive protector will save them both, or transform her into the house’s next living prisoner.
A dark Gothic paranormal romance featuring a sentient haunted manor, forced proximity, a protective supernatural hero, dangerous touch, family secrets, and a romance powerful enough to make the house itself jealous.
319 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 8, 2026
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August 29, 2026
A decent, interesting story but the repetativness is mind numbing! Words, phrases, feeling and descriptions are repeated throughout this book to the point that I can't even continue onto the next two books to finish this trilogy, and it leaves on a cliffhanger!!
September 9, 2026
This book could have been great but the editing was severely lacking. It was twice as long as it needed to be. There was a lot of repetition and it was tough not to roll my eyes when seeing a word of phrase repeated over and over. I won’t be continuing the series.
August 30, 2026
Ideen er så god, men sproget er alt for metafor tungt, selvom den er engelsk.
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