Seven Letters You Swore to Burn

von Delois Felder

182 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some sins cannot be washed away by the Atlantic tide. Some devotions are written in blood and ash.Perched atop the jagged granite promontory of Blackwood Isle stands Highcrag Manor-a fortress of salt spray, iron, and suffocating shadows. To this storm-lashed exile comes Clara Vance, an elite archival conservator whose own past is a fractured manuscript. Five years after a catastrophic car crash erased her memories and claimed the life of her identical twin sister, Madeline, Clara accepts a lucrative mainland commission: restore the water-damaged nautical charts and private papers of Julian Sterling, the estate's reclusive, grief-stricken master.Yet the moment she enters the suspended Iron Conservatory, Clara is caught in the orbit of an intoxicating, dangerous presence. Julian Sterling commands an imposing, predatory stillness, his slate-gray eyes holding a smoldering intensity that borders on reverence and dread. He treats Clara not as an employee, but as a ghost reawakened. And when Clara breaks the scarlet wax seal of an envelope concealed inside an eighteenth-century naval atlas, the silence of the archives turns lethal.The letter is written in the unmistakable, flamboyant handwriting of her deceased twin. Its message is a chilling omen: Highcrag is an execution chamber. Julian Sterling will bury you where he buried me.What begins as a delicate restoration project descends into an agonizing psychological labyrinth. As five wax-sealed letters surface one by one across the cold granite corridors, Clara uncovers devastating revelations that shatter her sanity. Julian's dead wife was never a woman named Helena-she was Madeline Vance, who stole Clara's identity to marry into unimaginable wealth. Worse still, Clara discovers that her own recovery, her quiet loft, and her prestigious career were secretly financed and orchestrated by Julian's unseen hand.Trapped between the terrifying magnetism of a billionaire who claims he only sought to build her a sanctuary, and the spectral warnings of a sister she thought she knew, Clara faces a maze of forged ink, clinical psychiatric records, and brutal betrayal. But as a Category Three gale severs Blackwood Isle from the mainland and armed hunters breach the sea gates, the ultimate cipher unravels: the seven letters were never meant to warn Clara against Julian. They were forged to help her remember what she did on the rocks five years ago.Hypnotic, darkly sensual, and relentlessly suspenseful, Seven Letters You Swore to Burn is a high-stakes gothic noir romance where every confession is a weapon, every touch is an awakening, and the line between an obsessive captor and a devoted protector is carved in stone.

• Themen: Belletristik Thriller / Spannung
• ISBN: 9798182773157
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Heather Menard