Born with power. Bound by terror. Freed by truth.

In the twilight of the Gilded Age, a young servant arrives at the great house of Greythorne hoping for a better life—but within its marble halls and glittering veneer, the powerful Rennard family hides dark family secrets born of obsession and privilege.

When Eve is drawn into their world of desire and decadence, she uncovers a legacy her mother fought to suppress —a history of women silenced, punished, and erased. Shadows gather beneath the chandeliers. Blood ties tighten. And love—if it can be called that—becomes the most dangerous secret of all.

Pearl Bound is a sapphic gothic horror novel steeped in the atmosphere of 19th-century historical fiction—a tale of feminist defiance, forbidden longing, shapeshifting magic born of Celtic mythology and the perilous cost of freedom.

For readers drawn to gothic historical fiction with queer themes, Pearl Bound will appeal to those responding to the dark intensity and transgressive power dynamics found in Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, alongside the atmospheric unease of Mexican Gothic and the psychological intimacy of A Dowry of Blood.