An atmospheric Southern Gothic romance of curses, memory, and the kind of love that survives the fire. In the shadows of 1800s Tennessee, where the soil clings to secrets and the trees grow twisted with time, nineteen-year-old Danielle Whitlock returns to her family's crumbling estate to confront a legacy soaked in sorrow. The spiral-a haunting symbol etched into stone, mind, and blood-has followed the women of her line for generations. But Danielle is not like the others. She hears the voices. She dreams in ash. When a stranger named Nicholas Bellamy arrives, bearing a bone ring and a past even darker than her own, Danielle begins to unravel the truth behind the curse that binds them both. Together, they descend into a world of echoing memories, ancestral sins, and fire-lit reckonings. But love, in a place like this, may be the most dangerous inheritance of all. As the spiral tightens and old ghosts claw their way free, Danielle must choose: bury the past once and for all-or let it bloom into something monstrous.