Solita

Sadie's once grief-ridden nightmares have twisted into dreams darker than she's ever known now that her life is forever entwined with the demon named Silas who bears the weight of countless sin.Sin she longs to upturn.Sin he longs to bury.For every secret of his past he refuses to surrender, Sadie is driven deeper into these sinister dreams. Deeper and deeper she delves until she finds the greatest temptation of them all; the open arms of the only soul who knows the truth.A phantom. A woman. A murdered lover.She offers Sadie everything her heart desires to see, and names only oneLet me in.The temptation is too great, and Sadie enters into this garden of earthly delights, tasting, drinking, feasting upon all of Silas' sin until she is blinded by fragrant blooms-but she must beware the serpents coiled beneath.For a snake cleaved in two can still sink its fangs deep into the veins; and once the venom of desire has spread through the blood, a deadly dance follows suit.And there is no cure, there is no balm, there is no escape from death's desire.

"They say every house has its ghosts; but the Hacienda has only one."Sadie is her name, and she is passing through the motions of a life soaked through with the stench of death. Grief-ridden nightmares plague her every sleepless night, only to continue into the day when she awakens to the burden of running her family's centuries-old estate:The Hacienda Espinosa, a yawning, black-wooded beast of a mansion nestled within the jungles of the Philippines is a house that offers Sadie nothing but a perpetual reminder of what once was, what can never be again. She is alone, save for the sound of her own lonely, broken heartbeat-that is until the day she hears another.And it's coming from beneath the floorboards.Unearthing what was left to rot beneath the house, Sadie realizes her fatal mistake; the dark secret was never buried to be forgotten. It was buried to be sealed away.It's no mortal, no man, but the Hacienda's first owner-a demon.And he's nothing like she expects.It's only through facing the past and her buried fears can Sadie find salvation as she upturns the Hacienda's twisted roots, roots born from the faith and fire of the conquistas, the Spaniards who came from distant shores, bringing with them not only their God, but also their demons. "Curses and love have collided; the account of such here is sweeping and told with prose that gently sways the reader through a romance capable of living amongst the classics." Gillian Dowell, author of Paracosm, Found by Forbiddance, and Hello, Dove "Rainn has created a vivid world that walks the line of reality and fantasy, perfectly blending them together; a perfect marriage." Sabrina Voerman, author of Red and 'sa "Solita is worth your time, your regard, and your attention. It is also worth reading for how spellbindingly it wraps around your heart and threatens to take it into the grave." Stephanie Kemler, author of Bloodborn "Every Gothic flavor one yearns for-the despair and the shadows, the smoldering demons, a haunted historic home-is supplied tenfold, but what is such a delight of this story is the cultural insight of a tropical world so rarely explored in Gothic literature." S. Escobar, author of A Song Beyond Walls