Spectres of Evershade Manor - A Gothic Boys’ Love Mystery. Shadows of the Lamp, #1

Edwin Blackthorn arrives at Evershade Manor expecting debt, dust, and the grim arithmetic of a failing inheritance. Instead, he finds stopped clocks, impossible chimes, and the sorrowful apparition of a child who should have vanished from family history generations ago. With the estate on the brink of seizure and conventional help useless, Edwin follows whispers into London's hidden night market, where he hires Julian Winter, an exiled mage with dangerous talents and no patience for aristocratic desperation.
Julian expects a nervous gentleman and a drafty house. What he finds is far worse: a bound spirit, a blood-soaked magical anchor, and a manor steeped in secrets that refuse to stay buried. As Edwin and Julian dig through old ledgers, sealed rooms, and the Blackthorn family's occult past, their reluctant contract becomes something more intimate and far more dangerous. Edwin's bloodline carries a Fae-touched legacy he barely understands.
Julian's past has made him a hunted man. And the force inside Evershade Manor is growing stronger with every passing night. To survive, they must trust each other before the house turns on them completely. But some ghosts do not want vengeance alone. Some want the truth brought into the light, no matter what it costs the living. Spectres of Evershade Manor is a gothic boys' love fantasy mystery featuring haunted manor atmosphere, Fae bloodline magic, an exiled mage, a scholarly heir, slow-burn MM romance, and supernatural danger.