The Blood Remembers

The house is gone. The bloodline isn’t.

When Iris returns home, the Ashborne estate doesn’t just remember her—it wants her back.

When neuroscientist Dr. Iris Ashborne returns to her family’s long-abandoned manor perched on the fog-lined cliffs of northern Britain, she expects a simple inheritance—dust, paperwork, closure. Instead, she finds a house that seems to breathe with memory, walls that shift when she isn’t looking, and whispers that call her by childhood names she doesn’t remember.
With her research assistant Camille at her side, Iris begins to unravel the Ashborne legacy: a hidden lineage obsessed with preserving ancestral consciousness through a ritual known as The Line of Memory. Diaries describe children who vanished. Teeth are found beneath the floorboards. And Iris wakes each night with soil on her hands and knowledge she has never learned.
As the Grange grows more alive—and Iris less herself—Camille discovers the horrifying truth: Iris was chosen long before she was born. Her bloodline is a vessel. Her memories are negotiable. Her identity is not entirely her own.
When the rituals escalate and the house begins bending reality around them, Camille must fight to free Iris from a destiny written in blood and bone. But breaking a lineage that has survived for centuries means facing a truth older than the family itself:
The house doesn’t haunt its heirs.
It absorbs them.
And even fire cannot destroy a legacy that has already taken root in the living.
Atmospheric, unnerving, and relentlessly gripping, Ashborne Grange: The Line of Memory pulls readers down a twisting path of ancestral terror, where memory becomes possession, love becomes rebellion, and the past refuses to stay buried.