Lenore Ashe
The Vale of Six Tombs
Gothic romantasy for readers who like their love stories with a body count — and a happy ending anyway.
His touch kills. The denial lasts a year.
Gothic romantasy for readers who like their love stories with a body count — and a happy ending anyway.
To erase her family's blood-debt, a mortician's daughter must spend one year as the bride of the entombed god her ancestors betrayed — and every night he remembers a little more about who buried him alive.
marriage of convenience · touch-her-and-die · morally gray immortal · a haunted house that takes sides · a slow burn that pays what it owes
Before Wren, before the vow, there was the first bride and the first tomb. The Hollow Hour is a novella you can't buy anywhere — it's my gift to readers who join the list. You'll also get cover reveals, ARC invitations, and release dates before anyone else.
In the Vale of Hollows, the dead stay down only when licensed hands prepare them — and once a generation, every great family pays.
Wren Mourvale signs in blood and descends sixty steps to marry the god beneath her house. One year as his bride; her sister free forever. Fair terms, save two omissions: the year will be taken from her life — and her husband's touch kills. They demonstrated on a rose.
He rehearsed being her monster for fifty years. Nobody warned him about her.