Alex Chen left her marriage, her career, and her old life to restore a crumbling Victorian inn on the coast of Maine. She came for the quiet. She didn't come to fall in love.
Then she meets Dr. Samantha Blackwood - brilliant, guarded, and carrying a two-hundred-year-old secret. Every woman in Samantha's bloodline who dared to love deeply has lost everything. The town calls it a curse. Samantha calls it a warning.
When Alex uncovers a body sealed in a hidden studio behind the inn's walls - perfectly preserved since 1887 - she realizes the curse isn't a story. It's history, repeating. And the closer she and Samantha grow, the more the past reaches for them both.
To have a future together, they'll have to break something that has taken every woman who came before them.
A slow-burn sapphic paranormal romance about second chances, inherited fear, and a love that refuses to stay buried.