{"product_id":"once-upon-a-midnight-dreary-cora-raven-9798290794358","title":"Once Upon a Midnight Dreary","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenniless, shunned by society, and marked forever by her mother's descent into madness, Lucy makes a desperate choice. She slips uninvited into London's most lavish masquerade ball, hiding behind a mask of desperation to secure the one thing she cannot survive without-marriage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChampagne loosens her fear. Music blurs her judgment. And then she sees him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe masked stranger that sends her heart racing. Seductive, watchful, and unsettlingly familiar, he draws Lucy into a dangerous dance that ends in public ruin... and a forced marriage neither of them can escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the masks come off, the man who broke her heart years ago stands before her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSylum Deveroux, Duke of Blackthorn, vanished into scandal after a forced engagement to a woman who would never walk down the aisle. Tarnished by accusations of murder, he was never supposed to be in London... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow she must risk it all to be with the man she never stopped loving. But once Lucy arrives at Blackthorn Manor, the true nightmare begins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFootsteps echo outside her door. The servants watch her too closely. Sylum appears where he should not, says things he swears he never said, and a raven named Poe croons riddles about shadows, bones, and divided minds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs her new husband plotting her destruction?\u003cbr\u003eIs the manor haunted by the ghost of his dead fiancée?\u003cbr\u003eOr is Lucy unraveling exactly as everyone always feared she would? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Once Upon A Midnight Dreary is a gothic psychological romance with a torturously slow descent into madness, steeped in obsession, and macabre desire. A fever-dream of a novel where truth fractures, love becomes dangerous, and the mind may be the most treacherous monster of all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a dark gothic romance intended for adult readers 18+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cora Raven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798290794358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.89d","brand":"Cora Raven","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48853033025791,"sku":"9798290794358","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/once-upon-a-midnight-dreary-cora-raven-9798290794358","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}