Blackthorn: A Dark Gothic Romance

Some homecomings feel like a resurrection. Maven Blackthorn's feels like a death sentence.

Twelve years after fleeing her shadowy small town in the wake of her mother's mysterious death, Maven returns to bury her grandmother—only to discover the body is gone. Vanished. As if the earth itself swallowed it whole. And in a town steeped in dark magic and bitter history, that possibility isn't entirely out of the question.

The Blackthorns have always blamed the Crofts—the ruthless, silver-tongued dynasty behind Croft Pharmaceuticals—for every misfortune that's befallen their family. When Maven finds herself face-to-face with the devastatingly arrogant heir to the Croft empire, the blood feud between their families ignites all over again. He is everything she was raised to despise: cold, calculating, and far too beautiful for his own good. She is everything he was warned against: dangerous, determined, and impossible to ignore.

But as the gothic secrets of Blackthorn begin to surface and the line between the living and the dead grows terrifyingly thin, Maven and her sworn enemy discover that the greatest threat to them both may not be each other—it may be whatever ancient darkness has been lurking in this town all along.

With wickedly sharp prose, smoldering tension, and a mystery that twists until the very last page, *Blackthorn* is a dark, atmospheric romance that proves the most forbidden love affairs are always the ones worth fighting for