Pearl Bound

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Some women are bound by class. Others refuse to be bound at all. Pearl Bound is a lush, gothic horror that explores forbidden desire, social power, and the price of women's power. In the glittering halls of Gilded Age New York , beneath chandeliers and velvet drapes, danger hides in plain sight. Eve Kelly, a young Irish immigrant, arrives with her mother to work at Greythorne, the sprawling estate of the powerful Rennard family. Born into servitude but restless with a force she cannot name, Eve is drawn into the orbit of Saskia Rennard, the family's magnetic and dangerous daughter. What begins as attraction quickly becomes entanglement, pulling Eve into a world where wealth masks cruelty, gender dictates roles, and love outside the rules is a dangerous rebellion. Fans of gothic horror , dark historical fiction , and sapphic/lesbian storytelling will be spellbound. With echoes of Mexican Gothic, A