Hearthlight Oath

The year is 1898. Rosemere House is being built, and from the moment the foundation settles, it begins to listen. Its first occupant is Isadora Thompson, a widowed cartographer who chooses solitude, whispering her profound grief to the kitchen tiles as she maps countries that exist only in memory. Rosemere, perceiving emotion as temperature, registers her sorrow as a chilling draft that settles in...