Weavingshaw · #1
Weavingshaw
This yearning, slow-burn gothic fantasy romance follows a young woman haunted by the ghosts of her past and a ruthless merchant known as the Saint of Silence, who promises her greatest desire in return for her darkest secret. . . .
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Leena didn’t believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw.
The Saint of Silence trades coins for every sordid divulgence uttered to him: the darker the secret, the higher the price.
Leena has a secret, one that has haunted her since she was seventeen—she can see the dead. When her brother falls ill, she knows she must seek the Saint to afford a remedy.
But Leena’s secret is more valuable than she could have imagined. To save her brother, she will make a deal to find the ghost the Saint has been searching for.
All paths lead to Weavingshaw, a cursed estate on the moors. As Leena grows closer to the Saint and is plunged into his world of danger, deceit, and desire, she learns that he is hiding his own secrets—ones with the power to destroy them all.
The series
Gothic fantasy and slow-burn romance meet in Weavingshaw, a world where ghosts have secrets, demons have agendas, and even the dead may have unfinished business. At its center is Leena Al-Sayer, a young woman who has been able to see the dead since she was seventeen, a gift she has learned to keep hidden. When her brother Rami falls dangerously ill and she needs money for his medicine, she turns to Saint Silas, the mysterious Saint of Silence, who makes his living trading in people's darkest confessions.
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Silas sees something unusual in Leena's secret and offers her a dangerous bargain. Rather than simply buying what she knows, he sends her searching for the ghost of Percival Avon, the last lord of Weavingshaw. Their investigation leads them across bleak moors to the cursed estate itself, where the supernatural is woven into the history of the house and the land seems to demand sacrifices of its own. What begins as an exchange between a desperate woman and a dangerous stranger gradually becomes a much deeper entanglement.
The relationship between Leena and Silas unfolds slowly, shaped by distrust, attraction, and the knowledge that neither has revealed everything. Around them, the world is changing. Industrialization is reshaping society, workers are rising against exploitation, and poverty, imprisonment, imperialism, and displacement provide a darker reality beneath the ghosts and demons. The supernatural horrors are unsettling, but the human systems that allow people to be discarded can be just as frightening.
As the story expands beyond its haunted estate, the series brings together gothic romance, dark fantasy, supernatural mystery, and political tension without allowing any one element to overwhelm the others. Leena's struggle is both intimate and deeply personal, rooted in family, survival, and the burden of a power she never asked for.
The first novel quickly established the series as a major new presence in gothic romantasy, becoming an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller and earning attention from publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post. With its cursed moors, morally complicated characters, ghostly mysteries, and simmering romance, the series offers a darker kind of fantasy, one where the most dangerous secrets may belong not to the dead, but to the living.
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