Synopsis
Verity Lane is not who she claims to be. Arriving at remote Halloway Hall with a false name and a dead man's watch hidden against her ribs, she needs only one thing: to survive a month as companion, secure a reference, and vanish into the next anonymous position before anyone learns the truth she carries. But the master of the house is blind, and what he cannot see he reads with unsettling precision — the scrape of her chair, the catch in her voice, the thin scar on her palm he finds with his fingertips. A pressed rose left on her pillow. Keys moved in the night. A bolted door no one will open. The deeper Verity digs into what truly happened at Halloway Hall, the more it becomes a mirror of the secret that drove her here. Drawn to a man as guarded and dangerous as she is, she must decide how long she can keep hiding — and what it will cost when the past finally catches up. A slow-burning Gothic tale of secrets, desire, and the terror of being truly known.
