The Speaking of Wounds - A Gothic MM Romance of Blood-Debts, Stolen Voices, and Love Spoken Aloud

Ravensmoor Hall has been waiting in the fog. When Laurence Penrose is hired to decode a mysterious cipher, he expects a difficult commission and a house full of secrets. He does not expect the Pale Shroud to swallow the road behind him, the doors to lock without a sound, or the ink on a warning note to crawl into an accusation only he could understand. Inside the cold, breathing silence of the Hall, Laurence finds Julian: the scarred and speechless lord of Ravensmoor, a man whose every attempt at truth is stolen, corrupted, or turned against him.
The house writes in blood. Mirrors answer with impossible messages. Rooms remember old crimes. And Julian's wounded body holds an alphabet of pain Laurence may be the only man alive who can read. What begins as a cipher becomes a bond neither man can safely name. Touch stills the house. Trust holds where ink lies. And as the debt buried in Ravensmoor's stones begins to come due, Laurence must decide whether the grammar of a curse can be broken by the one thing the house has never understood: a love freely spoken.
The Speaking of Wounds is a standalone MM gothic romance of haunted halls, stolen voices, blood-written secrets, and two men fighting to turn silence into sanctuary.