Soft Hearts are Easily Swallowed…

Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, this dark fairy tale follows Sloane McIntyre, a Boston-born workhouse girl and suspected murderess, who is sent away to serve a rich man and his ailing wife. But what begins as a promising new start curdles into something far more sinister. Sloane soon finds herself drawn into a labyrinth of horrors only a demon could survive.

Gothic, eerie, and emotionally sharp, A Vow for Breaking will appeal to readers of Appalachian folk horror, historical gothic fiction, and haunting fables where nothing is as it seems … and almost everything is hungry.

With lyrical menace and atmospheric depth, author L.M. Riviere delivers a chilling story of suspicion, confinement, and the monstrous things we keep locked inside.