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The House Of Ash and Echo
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Guy Roberts
Published: Aug 7 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The House of Ash and Echo
A Novel by Guy Roberts
In a city governed by twelve ancient Houses - each bound by blood, silence, and sacred contract - the Echo family speaks only in riddles and forgotten songs. When Thane M., a disgraced academic with nowhere left to go, is invited to tutor their mute heir, he expects only decay and discipline. What he finds is something far stranger.
The house hears.
The house remembers.
The house writes.
Soon, ghost-sounds crawl through the halls - screams no one recalls, conversations that never happened, and echoes of a past no one claims. As Thane becomes entangled in a dangerous affair with the heir's sibling, and the house begins recording his every move, he realizes he's not just tutoring a child...
He's tutoring a memory.
And the house may be drafting a second version of him - one that whispers when he isn't listening.
Darkly romantic, intellectually provocative, and haunting in its prose, The House of Ash and Echo is a gothic literary thriller about the ethics of memory, the violence of language, and the versions of ourselves we can never unwrite.
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