He was hired to bury the truth. She came to dig up his.
Once upon a time, two sisters were taught
to lift the gold from a lie, and see what the varnish forgot.
One learned it too well, and one learned it too late,
and one was pulled cold from a lake by the hands of her fate.
He is the monster this whole city has named,
three wives in the ground and no one to blame.
She walks through his door with a borrowed disguise,
a dead woman's name and a murder to prove in his eyes.
But under the gilding, the truth starts to bleed:
the wolf isn't him. It's the hand holding the lead.
And the girl sent to hang him will learn, in the dark,
she'd rather be his than be safe. Rather burn than depart.
Briar Hale restores old paintings for a living. She knows better than anyone that the truth is always hiding under the surface, and she has come to Vane House to uncover the worst one of all: proof that Caspian Vane drowned her sister.
The city calls him Bluebeard. Three wives, three tragedies, one cold and beautiful man who lets the rumor stand like armor. Briar expects a killer. She does not expect to be seen by one, measured by one, wanted by one.
And she does not expect the secret waiting beneath the lie: that Caspian didn't hire a restorer by accident, that her sister left a message only a daughter could read, and that the two of them were built, hand and habit, into the same trap by the same patient wolf.
To survive it, Briar will have to become the one thing more dangerous than the monster she came to destroy. To keep her, Caspian will burn the whole city to the waterline.
Some locked doors are a warning. This one is an invitation.
INDIGO is a full-length standalone gothic dark romance and the first book in the Gilded Grimm series - twisted fairy-tale retellings where the villain gets the girl and the girl is worse than the villain. It is not a literal retelling. It features a morally gray heroine, an obsessive antihero, a slow-burn to scorching, and a dark happily-ever-after. Mature themes and explicit content. Reader discretion is advised. Full content notes inside.
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