The Poisoned Rose

Some houses keep secrets. Others cultivate them.

Yorkshire, 1946. Librarian Edward Smith arrives at Hackthwaite Hall to catalogue a private collection. Snow falls outside. Inside, footsteps echo down old stone corridors, and no one speaks of the staff who came before.

Dr Lovegrove, the Hall’s austere owner, talks of alchemy and ancient remedies. His daughter, Susannah, is graceful, distant—but is she what she seems?

As winter deepens and the garden begins to stir, Edward becomes concerned about what is really going on inside Hackthwaite Hall.

The Poisoned Rose is a slow-burning supernatural mystery of secrecy, seduction, and strange inheritance—for readers drawn to crumbling estates, arcane texts, and the dread that grows by inches.

In Hackthwaite Hall, something is taking root.