{"product_id":"house-of-ash-and-chains-ginger-willove-9798186534723","title":"House of Ash and Chains: A Dark Gothic Bound Souls Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne heartbeat binds them. One house wants to own them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLenora Whitcombe survived Hollowmere's thirty-night residency, but the manor's curse did not end when the final sun went down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt changed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGideon is no longer the cold, hollowed-out sentinel Hollowmere made him. He is warm. Solid. Hers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut he is not free. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt wants to use their love as its next prison. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut in Hollowmere, intimacy has a cost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ginger Willove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798186534723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Ginger Willove","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174252912895,"sku":"9798186534723","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/house-of-ash-and-chains-ginger-willove-9798186534723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}