The Maroon Candle

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When Mayguard Manor, an abandoned Gothic castle rising from the icy waters of Lake Superior, reopens for its first event in over fifty years, it promises an unforgettable destination wedding. For neurosurgeon Amber Tambon, it's meant to be a fresh start: her fourth engagement, a younger fiancé, and a chance to finally outrun a past shaped by emotional distance and relentless ambition. But Mayguard has a history steeped in tragedy. The former owners and one of their adopted children died within its towers. Bridges have collapsed without warning. And now, as wedding guests begin arriving, death returns, the first victim a ferry operator, burned alive in one of the castle's towers. A notorious pyromaniac serial killer resurfaces, marking each victim with a single maroon taper candle. As guests vanish and a violent storm seals off the island, every escape route disappears as panic ignites. Amber, haunted by her own exposure to the killer's victims through