The Ravenswood name is not a legacy. It is a leash. And no matter how far they run, the blood always pulls them back.
Three days after burying her mother, FBI forensic accountant Elena Ravenswood receives a letter with no postmark and a key that pulses with unnatural warmth. It leads her to Ravenswood Manor — a Gothic masterpiece on the Maine coast her family fled seventy years ago, and has been running from ever since.
She isn't alone. Three other descendants have been summoned. Together, they must unravel the Night of the Burning — the 1954 tragedy that killed seventeen people in flames that burned cold — and confront Malcolm Blackwood, a man whose desperate love became an eternal curse that the manor has been feeding on ever since.
The manor is more than stone and shadow. It is a prison for the dead. A vault for the Echo of Memories — an artifact powerful enough to rewrite time itself. And it has been waiting for Elena and her bloodline to unlock what should have stayed sealed forever.
Alongside her estranged partner Marcus Chen — the man she has spent three years refusing to love — Elena navigates impossible corridors and discovers a terrible truth: her bloodline wasn't just cursed. It was designed.
Four descendants. Four keys. One catastrophic choice.
Some sacrifices echo through eternity.
Notes from Ravenswood: A Writer’s Journal
Twenty-four gothic writing prompts to find your voice in the dark. Designed for writers drawn to the atmospheric, the uncanny, and the beautifully strange.
Each prompt opens a door into Ravenswood Manor — the ancestral home at the heart of Meredith McGough’s supernatural fiction. Whether you write gothic mystery, dark fiction, or literary horror, this journal gives you the space to explore it.
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