The Bride Wore His Mother's Ring

Serafina Voss is a debt with a dowry. Married to Rafe Corvin at nineteen, she arrives at Hollowgate to find a house that redraws itself nightly, a mother-in-law who exists only as notes under doors, and a husband who will not take off his gloves. The ring on her finger was made for someone else. So was the dress, the bedroom, and — she slowly understands — the entire marriage. Forty-one women have worn this ring. None of them left. Serafina has always been good at arithmetic. She knows what she is worth, and she knows the house has been waiting for a bride who would not run. An arranged marriage dark gothic romance of contracts, corridors, and the woman who finally read the fine print.