The House of Forbidden Desire

June Calva Paranormal Urban

The Morrow family is settling into Blackthorn House — a Victorian estate on the Oregon coast that feels, impossibly, like exactly what they'd always wanted. Eighteen-year-old Wren tells herself the fresh start will fix everything: her parents' cold marriage, her own restlessness, the sense that something in their old life had already broken.
But nothing about this house adds up. No one eats. No one sleeps. No one seems to notice. And every night, a boy who shouldn't exist finds his way into Wren's room, offering her exactly what she didn't know she wanted — until she starts losing time she can't account for.
The closer Wren looks, the more the house resists being looked at. Her family can't hear half of what she's trying to tell them. Something ancient is watching from just beneath the floorboards, and it is patient in a way nothing living has any right to be.
To survive, Wren has to learn to tell her own desires from the ones being fed to her, piece together what really happened the night they arrived, and find a way out of a house that was built to make leaving unthinkable.
A gothic thriller about desire, denial, and the cost of being the only one who wants to wake up.

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