A HIGHLAND VOW The Duke of Glenross Takes a Bride Torquil Drummond, Duke of Glenross, has one rule: no love matches. With his family’s crumbling Highland estate on the line and a grandmother’s ultimatum ringing in his ears, he needs a wife of convenience — sensible, unromantic, and gone from his life the moment duty is satisfied. Lady Cassandra Pemberton needs the same thing, for reasons entirely her own. A scandal threatens to ruin her family, and a swift, loveless marriage to a reclusive Scottish duke offers the one thing London can’t: distance, and a fresh name to hide behind. Both arrive at the altar certain of the arrangement. Neither expects Glenross — its cold stone halls, its fierce loyal tenants, its brooding duke — to slowly, stubbornly become home. But an old debt is coming due. A lowland baron with a decade of patience and a grudge disguised as business is closing in on the estate, and on the legitimacy of their marriage itself. As secrets from Torquil’s father’s past surface and the fight moves from the Highlands to an Edinburgh courtroom, Cassandra and Torquil must decide whether the vow they made for sense was ever really just that — or whether it’s become the truest thing either of them has. A slow-burn marriage of convenience romance of muddy boots, guarded hearts, and a Highland glen worth fighting for.

Where the Dead Still Love In the fog-bound town of Ashly Hills, unfinished love doesn’t just haunt — it lingers as a Remnant, tethered to the living until a Binder can release it. Rose Calloway has spent her life performing these releases, paying each one in fragments of her own memory, ever since she freed her mother from a decade-long vigil for a husband who never came home. When a string of impossible deaths sweeps through town — victims with no wound but a face frozen in terror — Rose discovers something worse than a Remnant gone wrong: a Hollow-thing, an ancient hunger that’s learned to wear unfinished grief like a disguise and feed on everyone who still carries it. Her investigation pulls her toward Jessie Marlowe, a guarded man newly returned to Ashly Hills, whose dead fiancée’s unbound tether may be the very door the creature is using. As the killings escalate and the Hollow-thing grows strong enough to manufacture new grief instead of feeding on old wounds, Rose is forced to confront the one debt she’s never let herself name — and learns that the only thing hungrier than a monster born of unfinished love is love that’s finally allowed to be spoken. A horror-fantasy mystery about grief, memory, and what it costs to let go.