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📚 Book 1 of a completed 3-book series
When a string of convenient deaths follow Signa everywhere she goes, she lands at Thorn Grove hoping to finally find a real family—only to discover a ghost, a murder, and a mansion full of deadly secrets. As the restless spirit of the Hawthorne matriarch demands justice, Signa finds herself drawn into a dangerous investigation that puts everyone she cares about at risk. Her unlikely allies include a brooding stable boy and an even more unlikely confidant: Death himself, a shadowy, magnetic force who's been protecting her all along. What unfolds is a darkly romantic tale of Gothic intrigue where Signa must decide if she can trust the one entity who's always been closest to her heart.
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