Some invitations should never be accepted.
She wrote hers herself.

Indie author Cara Ashford has spent two years staring at Villa Diodati from across Lake Geneva while writing a novel about the scandal-soaked summer of 1816 that nobody wants to buy. On the anniversary of the night Frankenstein was born, she finally crosses the water. Just for a photo. Just to see the gates.

But the villa’s owner is waiting for her.

Gabriel Ashworth is beautiful, impossible, and far too familiar with her book — down to details she never published. He offers her what no scholar, tourist, or biographer has ever been given: a way in. Thirteen nights inside the most infamous house in literary history, assembling the poet’s lost collection beside a man who quotes Byron like a memory instead of a book.

With every night, every annotation, every locked door, the line between her fiction and his truth grows thinner. Because Gabriel doesn’t behave like a collector. He behaves like a man who was there.

“You wrote about me. I want to know how much you remember.”

Some stories you write. Some write you back.

The saga opens September 17, 2026.
Book Two arrives October 15, 2026.
Book Three arrives October 31, 2026.