She signed a contract to save her family home. She didn't expect to fall for a man with a locked room and a dead wife's secret.

When architect Nora Calloway enters a one-year marriage contract with billionaire Damien Ashworth, she expects twelve months of cold civility at his remote Highland estate ? and nothing more. What she finds is a brooding, dangerously controlled man who goes to the locked East Tower every night, speaks to the dark, and keeps a lamp burning in the window for a wife who has been dead for three years.

Then a body appears in the snow. A detective arrives by helicopter. A woman walks six miles through a blizzard with accusations in her fists. And the forbidden room at the end of the East Corridor holds evidence that could destroy the man who murdered Cecily Ashworth ? or destroy Damien himself.

Dark, atmospheric, and relentlessly twisty, What He Keeps in the Dark is a slow-burn forced proximity dark romance set in a snowbound gothic estate where every locked door hides a different kind of love.

Perfect for fans of H.D. Carlton, Ana Huang, and Freida McFadden.

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