The Last Daughter of Briar House - An Extended Teaser: The Midnight Society

An inherited house full of secrets. An immortal guardian forbidden to love her.

Every family buries something. Hers buried it under the house.

When Ava Briar comes home to Savannah for her grandmother's funeral, she inherits three things: a crumbling estate the family never sold, a ring of seven iron keys, and one final instruction.

Never open the door beneath the house.

Ava expects debt. Repairs. Family drama.

She does not expect the dead garden to bloom the moment she touches the gate. She does not expect her grandmother's handwriting to appear, fresh, in the margins of old books. And she does not expect Kaius: ancient, infuriating, devastating—a guardian bound to the Briar bloodline by an oath older than the city, who has protected eight generations of Briar women.

And buried every one.

Because the Briars are a founding line of the Midnight Society—the hidden network of Black magical families whose power has run beneath American history for three hundred years. Ava's grandmother didn't die in her sleep. She was murdered for a power she hid in the one place no thief could follow. Now the Society is coming to test whether the last daughter can hold her family's seat, something older is coming to make sure she can't, and the door beneath the house has started calling to Ava.

In a voice she'd know anywhere.

The only soul she can trust is the immortal sworn to protect her. But the seal beneath Briar House feeds on a guardian's love—and it takes the price from the woman he loves. Kaius has kept his distance for three hundred years.

Until her.

Hidden legacy. Ancient magic. A love that could cost her everything. A door that should have stayed shut.

The house is listening. The Society is watching. And something beneath Briar House remembers her name.

© 2026 Blackwood Publishing Agency (E-bog): 9781637182543

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E-bog: 3. juli 2026