The Price of Salt and Stone: By: Sable Devereaux

A debt written in blood can only be settled in marrow.Genevieve Devereaux ran until the mud claimed her silk stays and the freezing pine woods swallowed her path. Fleeing a ruthless cousin and a suffocating family ledger, she sought sanctuary at the iron-studded threshold of Blackbriar Manor-a grand, decaying fortress rumored to devour anyone who crosses its gates.She expected a grave. Instead, she found a sanctuary forged of mortal fire and ancient shade.Julian is the restorer-a scarred, uncompromising craftsman whose rough, calloused hands bind broken stone and rebuild shattered souls. Corvus is the shadow-bound fae-a lethal, intoxicating entity of pitch-black eyes and razor-thin smiles who hungers for the debt coursing through her veins.Bound to Julian's suffocating heat and Corvus's cold, velvet chill, Genevieve becomes the living heart of Blackbriar itself. But when her past arrives at the gate bearing cold iron, silvered nails, and inquisitors' fires, Genevieve faces a final choice: yield to the world that broke her, or unleash the dark authority pulsing beneath her skin.They came to purge a runaway. They will answer to a queen.The Price of Salt and Stone is a spicy, standalone dark gothic fantasy romance featuring an MMF why-choose relationship, possessive antiheroes, magical rune bindings, and a heroine who claims the darkness instead of running from it.