House of Ash and Chains: A Dark Gothic Bound Souls Romance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186534723)

One heartbeat binds them. One house wants to own them.

Lenora Whitcombe survived Hollowmere's thirty-night residency, but the manor's curse did not end when the final sun went down.

It changed.

By choosing Gideon Crowe over escape, Lenora forged a bond the house was never meant to understand. Their heartbeats now move in the same rhythm. Their scars answer each other. Their memories bleed across the line between body and soul.

Gideon is no longer the cold, hollowed-out sentinel Hollowmere made him. He is warm. Solid. Hers.

But he is not free.

The scars carved into his body still pulse with the command logic of the ritual that bound him in 1891. As fragments of his stolen human past begin surfacing inside Lenora's mind, the manor shifts from jealous predator to something more dangerous. It no longer wants to keep them apart.

It wants to use their love as its next prison.

Every touch strengthens the bond. Every shared breath gives Hollowmere another way in. And when the Builder's replacement protocol awakens beneath the black stone altar, Lenora realizes the house intends to turn her into its living anchor and Gideon into its obedient lock all over again.

To survive, they must uncover the truth of the betrayal that made Gideon a prisoner, reclaim the man he was before the curse, and draw boundaries around a love powerful enough to contain the darkness beneath the house.

But in Hollowmere, intimacy has a cost.

And if Lenora and Gideon cannot protect the difference between devotion and possession, the heartbeat that saved them may become the chain that binds them forever.

A dark gothic paranormal romance featuring established lovers, a jealous sentient manor, shared memories, dangerous intimacy, a protective supernatural hero, a heroine fighting for autonomy, and a love the house itself is desperate to claim.

Author: Ginger Willove
ISBN-13: 9798186534723
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2026
Pages: 390
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d