The House Of Ash and Echo

<p><strong>The House of Ash and Echo</strong><br><em>A Novel by Guy Roberts</em></p><p>In a city governed by twelve ancient Houses - each bound by blood silence and sacred contract - the Echo family speaks only in riddles and forgotten songs. When Thane M. a disgraced academic with nowhere left to go is invited to tutor their mute heir he expects only decay and discipline. What he finds is something far stranger.</p><p>The house hears.<br>The house remembers.<br>The house writes.</p><p>Soon ghost-sounds crawl through the halls - screams no one recalls conversations that never happened and echoes of a past no one claims. As Thane becomes entangled in a dangerous affair with the heir's sibling and the house begins recording his every move he realizes he's not just tutoring a child...</p><p>He's tutoring a memory.</p><p>And the house may be drafting a second version of him - one that whispers when he isn't listening.</p><p><strong>Darkly romantic intellectually provocative and haunting in its prose </strong><em><strong>The House of Ash and Echo</strong></em><strong> is a gothic literary thriller about the ethics of memory the violence of language and the versions of ourselves we can never unwrite.</strong></p>