Weavingshaw
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
This “darkly romantic and completely absorbing” (The New York Times) slow-burn gothic fantasy romance follows a young woman haunted by the ghosts of her past and a ruthless merchant known as the Saint of Silence, who promises her greatest desire in return for her darkest secret. . . .
Leena didn’t believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw.
The Saint of Silence trades coins for every sordid divulgence uttered to him: the darker the secret, the higher the price.
Leena has a secret, one that has haunted her since she was seventeen—she can see the dead. When her brother falls ill, she knows she must seek the Saint to afford a remedy.
But Leena’s secret is more valuable than she could have imagined. To save her brother, she will make a deal to find the ghost the Saint has been searching for.
All paths lead to Weavingshaw, a cursed estate on the moors. As Leena grows closer to the Saint and is plunged into his world of danger, deceit, and desire, she learns that he is hiding his own secrets—ones with the power to destroy them all.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Leena has a gift that nobody can know about. As a refugee, she already feels like an outsider in the England-like country of Morland. Who knows what would happen if her neighbours in Golborne, Morland’s sooty, industrial capitol city, discovered that she sees ghosts? But when things get desperate, Leena’s gift becomes her only currency. Because there’s someone who’ll pay for her secret: St. Silas, the handsome and merciless man known as the Saint of Silence. We had a feeling about the cool, unflinching St. Silas as soon as he offered to pay Leena not just for her secret but for her indentured service. And yet, author Heba Al-Wasity forgoes the thunderclap of insta-lust we normally expect from a romantasy, instead letting us get to know them both as they get to know—and care for—each other. In a genre that rarely explores such diverse stories, Weavingshaw offers not just a gorgeously executed Victorian gothic tale but one with a refreshing new perspective.
