The Thorns of Rosewood Manor

Desperate for work, landscape architect Maddie Porter accepts a six-week job restoring the rose garden at Rosewood Manor. The pay is generous, the isolation complete, and her employer, the estate's reclusive heir Carlisle Rosewood, is clearly hiding something.

The garden itself defies explanation. Roses bloom in impossible perfection despite decades of neglect, filling the air with a sweetness so thick it feels like drowning. No birds sing. Nothing rots.

She realizes this is no ordinary restoration project. The roses are listening. The garden is watching. And something in the soil has been waiting for over 170 years.

The longer Maddie stays, the harder it becomes to leave. Not just physically, but mentally, as if the garden itself is rewriting her thoughts, making her forget why she ever wanted to escape.

Now Maddie must uncover what really grows beneath Rosewood Manor's perfect blooms before she becomes part of the garden forever.

A lush Southern Gothic horror. It's perfect for readers who love atmospheric dread, forbidden romance, and the terror of beautiful things that refuse to die.