Fading Shadows

After barely surviving a lightning strike from a woman who was supposed to be dead, Piper wakes to find herself saved by the last man she should trust—Gabriel, her enemy and the executioner of someone she once loved.

But rescue comes with a price.

To protect her—or control her—Gabriel sells her as a trinket to Bartholomew Alwood, a collector of rare things and broken people. Within his gilded estate, beauty masks rot, and whispers tell of girls who vanish into locked rooms and never return.

Posing as a servant, Piper must navigate a maze of lies and lavish cruelty, uncovering a network that trades in souls and magic. Yet every step deeper draws her closer to a truth she isn't ready to face: the shadows inside this house are alive, and they know her name.

Haunted by ghosts of the past and tethered to the man who betrayed her, Piper will have to decide what she's willing to become to expose the darkness—prey, pawn, or something far more dangerous.

Because in Alwood's house, even the light has teeth.