What Remains of Destiny: A Dark Gothic Romance

She wasn't rescued. She was collected.Destiny arrives at Câmbria Hall with dried blood under her nails and a man left bleeding on the road behind her. The Monsignor who takes her in has gentle hands, a mild voice, and one rule: the door is always unlocked.He never locks her in. He never has to.Because in a house where escape is permitted, staying stops being captivity and becomes a choice - and choice, Destiny will learn, is the heaviest chain of all.When a second man rides in off the moor promising a real way out, she discovers that both men keep women the same way, call the same thing love, and that the only way to survive them both is to stop being the woman things are done to - and become the woman who does.But there is a price for becoming more dangerous than the monsters. It is paid with whatever human part of you is left.For readers who love - Captive romance and isolated gothic manors - Morally grey anti-heroines who turn the game mid-book - Love triangles where the question isn't "which one" but "which is worse" - Atmospheric prose, slow burn, and psychological tension - Endings that cut and stay with you Before you beginAdult reading (18+). A work of fiction dealing with coercion, psychological captivity, violence, trauma and trauma bonding. The intensity is psychological and atmospheric rather than graphic, and intimate scenes are closed-door. This story has no conventional happy ending and no character should be read as a model of conduct.Some doors, once crossed, lock from the inside.