Shipped off to a mysterious boarding school tucked away in the far corners of England for being a stain on her family’s honour, seventeen-year-old Dorothee De Loughrey never imagined that the haunting whispers of death she’d heard since childhood were anything but fragments of her imagination. Everything changes when an incident draws her into her roommate's inner circle—a group of misfits whose wealthy families are too ashamed to acknowledge them as their heirs. Dorothee never believed she’d find others her age who share her burden. On Samhain, when the veil between worlds is thinnest, a restless spirit attempts to claim Dorothee’s life. She’s saved by Archer Kingstone, the brooding boy who has made his disdain for her clear from the start. A bitter truth, given the unexplainable longing she feels whenever he’s near. Archer leads her to a hidden sanctuary beneath the school’s library, a place built centuries ago for people like her, those who can see beyond the veil. Dorothee is stunned to learn of the legacy left by her great-aunt, who died in an accident at the school fifty years ago, alongside her lover. Now, forced to team up with Archer and the others, Dorothee must solve the riddles tied to the legacy and uncover the source of their curse before history repeats itself. What Dorothee doesn’t know is that Archer Kingstone is prophesied to be her ruin.

Publication Year: 2025