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Welcome toBeneath the Veil.๏ปฟ๏ปฟ

This is a gothic romance wrapped in survival and secrets. Isla Veridia is silent, the outside world feels impossibly far away, and The Veridian Veil Hotel, built in the 1960s and scarred by tragedy after tragedy, is more than a ruin. Itโ€™s a living memory that refuses to stay buried.

Amaris comes here looking for a way out, not ghosts, not love. But then she meets Silas, a man who seems real enough to trust and dangerous enough to fear. The deeper she digs through clippings and decaying journals, the more the island tightens around her, and the harder it becomes to tell whatโ€™s saving her and whatโ€™s claiming her.

Step carefully. The Veil remembers.

Summary

Amaris Barker survives a brutal storm at sea and wakes alone on Isla Veridia, an island that feels wrong in the quietest ways. Through fog and vines, she finds a grand ruined hotel with faded gold letters above its doors. The Veridian Veil. It should be empty. It should be safe. It is neither. The Veil watches. Mirrors fog. Footsteps echo a beat late. Doors shift. Hallways lead her somewhere new. Then she meets Silas, calm, kind, and impossibly steady for a man trapped in a place like this. He knows which corridors to avoid. He speaks to the hotel like it can hear him. And it can. As Amaris and Silas grow closer, the Veil begins to wake, tightening around them with a hunger that feels personal. She was not washed ashore by accident.

Clear Skies

Amaris laughed with her friends as she held up her camera, snapping shots of them dancing and throwing back drink after drink of champagne. She was glad she brought it ...