The Hearthlight Oath (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Series: Silent Witness, Book 1
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: MR Parrott
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 574
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The year is 1898. Rosemere House is being built, and from the moment the foundation settles, it begins to listen. Its first occupant is Isadora Thompson, a widowed cartographer who chooses solitude, whispering her profound grief to the kitchen tiles as she maps countries that exist only in memory. Rosemere, perceiving emotion as temperature, registers her sorrow as a chilling draft that settles into the floorboards. Isadora crafts the Porcelain Listening Bowl, a silent confidante for her unspoken confessions. But when a devastating, unnameable family tragedy strikes, the Thompsons, gathered around the last embers of their fire, make a pact: The Hearthlight Oath: We do not speak of what breaks us, lest we break entirely. As the first generation of silence falls, and the first Ellis Greyvine begins their quiet watch, Rosemere House becomes more than shelter-it becomes a sentient vessel of profound, inherited silence, setting the stage for a century of hidden sorrows.
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