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The Jasmine Room
Paperback
Publisher: Beverley Lilliann Alice Joubert
Published: Sep 18 2025
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Detective Elara Quinn is sent to Marrowbone House, a decaying estate on the Yorkshire moors, to quietly revisit a cold case that derailed her career-the infamous disappearance of Ophelia Marrowbone, a girl who vanished from her locked bedroom ten years earlier.
But Marrowbone is no ordinary house.
From the moment Elara arrives, the moor seems to whisper. A porcelain doll waits in the study, bleeding from a cracked wrist. Jasmine blooms out of season. Mirrors reflect memories that don't belong to her. And the locals-especially the reclusive Gideon Marrowbone-insist that Ophelia never left.
As Elara digs deeper, she unearths traces of an older sister, Margaret, rumored stillborn, and a pattern of vanishing girls across generations. A hidden staircase beneath the floorboards leads her into the dark gut of the house, where memory doesn't just linger-it reshapes. There, she confronts versions of herself, lost in time, caught in the house's ever-blooming grief.
Haunted by forgotten trauma and unraveling identity, Elara must face a horrifying truth: she was never meant to solve the mystery.
She was meant to return to it.
Now, the house remembers her-and it's ready to bloom again.
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