The Midnight Daughters: A Sapphic Gothic Romance

"I am not afraid of ghosts. I am afraid of what they remember."

When Imara Thornwood inherits Ashwood Estate, she expects dust, silence, and old books. What she finds instead is a house alive with memory—and women who were erased for loving other women, for knowing too much, for refusing to be small.

As a Black lesbian scholar in Victorian England, Imara has spent her life documenting other women's courage while hiding her own. At Ashwood, the past refuses to stay buried. Spirits whisper from...