The Reflection's Price

<p><strong>A house of lies. A demon of glass. The terrifying cost of being perfect.</strong></p><p>Clara Blackwood has nowhere else to go. Aged out of the foster system with only a cryptic letter from a dead great-aunt she arrives at the foreboding Ravenscroft Manor-a place of twisted iron and broken glass that breathes with a life of its own. The only inheritance she expects is a roof over her head. What she finds is something far more dangerous.</p><p>The manor is a labyrinth of mirrors each one housing a reflection that isn't her own. These perfect beautiful versions of Clara offer her everything she's ever longed for: beauty confidence love and a life free from pain. All she has to do is step through the glass.</p><p>But Clara is not alone. Elias a scholar trapped in the manor's library reveals the horrifying truth. The mirrors are prison worlds created by a ancient demon that feeds on human self-loathing. The perfect reflections are hollow lies and the women who gave in are now trapped forever their life force slowly draining to sustain the illusion.</p><p>To save herself and free the lost souls Clara must perform a terrifying ritual. The cost? The one thing the demon cannot understand or replicate: genuine self-love. In a final confrontation with the demon wearing her own face Clara must choose between the beautiful lie of perfection or the painful beautiful truth of being perfectly imperfectly real.</p><p><strong>The Reflection's Price is a haunting Gothic dark fantasy for fans of:</strong></p><ul><li>The sentient malevolent houses in <strong>T. Kingfisher's The Hollow Places</strong></li><li>The psychological horror and self-acceptance themes in <strong>The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue</strong></li><li>The dark fairy-tale atmosphere of <strong>Ninth House</strong> and <strong>Vita Nostra</strong></li></ul>