A Pale Inheritance

by Dovewood Ink

Theo always knew his family was old money and older silence. He did not know that the silence had a name, or that on his twenty-fifth birthday it would arrive at the door in an immaculate grey suit to collect what three generations of Ashforth men had promised it. A modern gothic about a debt of blood, and the patient elegant creditor who has come, at last, to be paid.