Where the Wolf Waits

When widow Eirlys Ashbourne returns to Harrowfell after her husband's death, she expects only a cold inheritance, an empty marriage finally buried, and a house full of silence. Instead, she finds a place that seems to remember her. A great dark wolf watches from the edge of the snow. A bell sounds beneath the chapel floor. Hidden journals reveal that her marriage was never what it seemed, and that Harrowfell stands upon an older pact, one bound to blood, witness, and a power that was never meant to sleep forever.
As winter closes around the estate, Eirlys is drawn deeper into the buried history of the house and toward Torin, a man of the woods who knows far more than he is willing to say. Between them lies a truth older than the Ashbourne name, and beneath them waits the secret heart of the land itself. To uncover what Harrowfell has hidden, Eirlys must face the ancient vow that shaped her life before she ever knew it was being chosen for her.
Where the Wolf Waits is a dark gothic fantasy of haunted halls, winter woods, forbidden longing, ancestral secrets, and old powers stirring beneath stone.