The Dead Man’s Bride

Milena Argent is sold into a noble marriage no living woman should survive. Her groom is not waiting at the altar. His coffin is.

Raised above embalming tables and cursed with the ability to hear the dead, Milena knows better than to trust mourning bells, silver cups, and smiling aristocrats. But when her own father forges her name into a contract with House Caldris, she is dragged into an ancestral wedding where the bride is expected to yield more than her hand.

The Caldris estate is a place of black bells, sealed crypts, hungry portraits, and family rites that treat the dead as honored guests. Milena is told her husband, Elias Caldris, died peacefully. Then she touches his silver coffin and feels a heartbeat answer from within.

Now bound to a man everyone insists is dead, Milena must survive a house that wants to feed on her name, her blood, and her place among the living. Elias warns her to flee before morning, but every escape tightens the silver seal beneath her skin—and every secret buried in House Caldris pulls her closer to the truth.

A gothic fantasy romance filled with dangerous marriage rites, haunted nobility, slow-burn tension, necromantic secrets, and a heroine who refuses to become a polite offering for a powerful family's sins.

If Milena runs, she may save herself.
If she stays, she may uncover why her dead husband is still fighting to reach the morning.