Embers in the Ossuary

Where the Dead Speak

von Ophelia Summers

496 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

She hears the confessions of the dead through fire. Her fiancé is a serial killer. And no one believes women who hear voices.

A Victorian gothic mystery where truth burns and the dead refuse to stay silent.

Seraphine Ashwood is a cremation keeper in 1825 London with a dangerous supernatural gift-she hears the final confessions of the dead through flames. The same ability that condemned her grandmother to die alone in an asylum, dismissed as mad by Victorian England's elite.

Then she burns a murdered woman's handkerchief. And hears the impossible.

Dr. Ambrose Thorne. Your fiancé. He killed me. He killed sixteen others. He'll kill again.

The respected physician. The charming suitor. The serial killer who poisoned seventeen patients and buried their bodies in the hospital ossuary.

Now the voices of his victims rise from Seraphine's flames, demanding justice.

But in a world where women are gaslit, silenced, and locked away for speaking inconvenient truths-who believes a cremation keeper over a doctor? Who trusts a woman who hears voices over a man with family wealth and institutional power?

To expose the truth, Seraphine must break into the Royal Hospital, gather evidence that will survive a courtroom battle, and convince the world she isn't insane-all while hunted by the Thorne family's conspiracy of institutional murder spanning forty years.

Her only ally? Cassian Thorne-Ambrose's estranged brother, a man torn between blood and truth. What begins as a dangerous alliance becomes something far more complicated: a forbidden slow-burn romance between a woman society calls mad and the brother of the monster she's trying to destroy.

Stay silent and marry a monster. Speak truth and lose everything.

But the dead won't be quiet. And neither will she.

"A haunting gothic masterpiece of fire, truth, and the voices that refuse to be silenced."

Perfect for readers who devoured: - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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EMBERS IN THE OSSUARY features: ⚰️ Victorian gothic mystery with supernatural horror elements

• Reihe: Embers in the Ossuary
• ISBN: 9798243301855
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.01.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Lisa Nicole Publishing