Interactive romance

The Hollow House

by Rosalind Fairweather

4.8 · 5 reviews

Marion Hale inherits an estate she never asked for: Blackthorn Hall, and every debt still nailed to its name. She only means to catalogue it, price it, and sell it before the roads close for winter. But the solicitor's key does not fit the gate anymore, the hedge has grown wild enough to swallow iron, and every clock in the house stopped on the same night, years ago, and never started again. The house still has a master. He will not cross its walls, not once, not for anything. Some nights he is not entirely certain he is still a man. And the longer Marion stays to mend what should not need mending, the harder it becomes to leave a house that watches her the way it once watched someone else, a long time ago, like it has been waiting for her specifically.

gothic, hushed, and tender: a melancholic slow-burn with real warmth underneath the dread, always fade-to-black