Ashes and Echoes: A Gothic Paranormal Novella

By Heather Renee Phillips

Ashes & Echoes is a gothic fairytale stitched from grief, devotion, and the kind of love that refuses to stay buried.
In the forgotten village of Valea S ngelui, nestled deep in the Romanian woods, Lena Marrow returns each summer to her ancestral cottage-and to Elias, a wild-hearted boy shaped by death and longing. When Lena defies mortality to resurrect Elias through forbidden magic, she awakens something fractured and ancient. Their love spans centuries, but time is cruel.
Generations later, Elena Mire is drawn into the same forest, pulled by blood and whispers. The house remembers her. Elias does too. Beneath the roots of the tree where Lena was buried, something begins to bloom again.
This is a story of monstrous love and redemptive magic. Of memory as ritual. Of grief as transformation.
Inside these pages, you'll find:
- A mythology of soul fragments called echoes, born from intense emotion
- A heroine discovering her ancestral power as an Echo-Walker
- A love story that spans lifetimes, bloodlines, and the edge of monstrosity
- A cursed forest, a sentient house, and rituals that bind, unravel, and resurrect
- A hunter who threatens everything-and a woman who might be the key to beginning again
Ashes & Echoes is for anyone who has ever felt haunted by loss or wondered what it means to be truly seen-even by something not quite human.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQTWTYJ5
• ISBN13: 9798264293979
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"