A Vow For Breaking

Soft Hearts are Easily Swallowed

No one in Boston hires mad workhouse girls suspected of murder.

So they've packed me off to the mountains of North Carolina to serve a house full of secrets.

Here, ghost lights flicker through tall trees. Voices whisper from empty corners. Children walk into the woods and never return. 

And the master of the house? 

They say he's man with coal for eyes. 

A devil in a banker's suit.

And ... he'll be home soon.

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'A Vow For Breaking' is a forbidding, standalone novel steeped in Appalachian lore, inherited curses, and a backwoods mansion brimming with otherworldly terror.

Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, this dark fairy tale follows Sloane McIntyre, a Boston-born workhouse girl and suspected murderess, who is sent away to serve a rich man and his ailing wife. But what begins as a promising new start curdles into something far more sinister. Sloane soon finds herself drawn into a labyrinth of horrors only a demon could survive.

Gothic, eerie, and emotionally sharp, A Vow for Breaking will appeal to readers of Appalachian folk horror, historical gothic fiction, and haunting fables where nothing is as it seems ... and almost everything is hungry.

With lyrical menace and atmospheric depth, author L.M. Riviere delivers a chilling story of suspicion, confinement, and the monstrous things we keep locked inside.