Mexican Gothic

She walks into a crumbling mansion expecting to rescue her cousin. She doesn't expect *him*.

Socialite Noemí Taboada has charmed her way through every parlor in Mexico City, but nothing prepares her for High Place — a fog-strangled estate rotting at the edge of civilization — or for Virgil Doyle, its cold, imperious heir who makes it abundantly clear she isn't welcome.

He's arrogant. She's relentless. And the tension crackling between them is more dangerous than the mansion's crumbling walls.

Set in 1950s Mexico, this atmospheric slow-burn follows two people who cannot stand each other and cannot stop thinking about each other, trapped beneath the same decaying roof while dark secrets seep through every crack in the plaster. Noemí came to save someone she loves. Now she's fighting to save herself — from the house, from the Doyle family's suffocating grip, and from the infuriating man whose cold exterior hides something she isn't prepared to understand.

Moreno-Garcia weaves a lush, intoxicating story where desire and dread are indistinguishable, where every stolen glance carries the weight of something forbidden, and where the line between enemy and ally dissolves in the dark.

Some houses swallow you whole. Some men are