When Delia Ashbourne arrives at the ancient Raven Manor, she isn't searching for a fairy tale. She is choosing Lucien Raven?a guarded, grieving lord whose heart has belonged to shadows for far too long.

Their months of intimate letters have already awakened something neither can deny. But stepping through the doors of Raven Manor means entering Lucien's world of candlelit halls, windswept cliffs, black rose gardens, and memories that refuse to remain buried.

Lucien has loved before. He has lost before. And opening his heart to Delia means risking the kind of devastation he swore he would never survive again.

Delia refuses to become another ghost in his past.

As their wedding approaches, desire deepens into devotion, old wounds begin to heal, and Raven Manor prepares to welcome a new bride into a legacy written in love, grief, and black roses.

A sensual gothic historical romance about a grieving older hero, the woman who brings light back into his life, and a love powerful enough to awaken an ancient manor.