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Pearl & Poison: Gothic Tales from the Twilight of the Empire's Edge
Paperback
Series: Courts & Colonies
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 5 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three Women. Three Haunted Legacies. One Empire in Decline.
At the far edges of Europe's fading empire, beauty and betrayal hide behind lace veils and marble walls. Pearl & Poison presents three chilling reimaginings of Gothic classics, each set in a colonial world where secrets fester beneath opulence.
In The House of Mournful Vows, a Eurasian girl is drawn into the decaying heart of her family's Vietnamese estate, where religion, inheritance, and silence become weapons.
In Lily of Damascus, the glamour of the Levant masks a woman's slow undoing within high society's gilded cage, where love becomes a currency too costly to afford.
In Buried Alive, a betrayed heiress in Côte d'Ivoire returns from the grave-literally or metaphorically-to reclaim what was stolen from her.
Blending haunting atmosphere, cultural specificity, and feminist undertones, these Gothic novellas reclaim forgotten heroines and illuminate the poison hidden beneath pearls.
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