Gregory Parrott

The Rosemere House is dying. Cracks snake through the walls, and the constant chill of generations of hidden grief threatens to crumble the very foundations. Lorien Thompson-Greyvine, the final descendant, has inherited not only the house but the crushing sensory empathy that allows them to hear the house's agony. Tormented by the legacy of the Hearthlight Oath-the pact of silence made a century ago-Lorien desperately seeks the truth, aided by the cryptic fragments left behind by the generations of Ellis Greyvines and the metaphorical roads of Isadora Thompson's Maps.
The search for the founding secret leads to the final, fraught Remembrance Supper. As the house pushes its last descendant for a confession, Lorien must choose between maintaining the family's rigid silence and speaking the century-old, devastating truth aloud. This act of verbal catharsis will either destroy Rosemere House and the family legacy forever or finally free the living from the haunting weight of the Silent Witness.