The House That Remembers: 3

She spent her life preserving the past. He spent his caring for everything others left behind. Neither expected the house to make room for something more.Marianna Pearce has built a comfortable life around order, routine, and the careful preservation of history. Working among artifacts and forgotten stories has always been easier than wondering whether her own life might hold something more. But when an antique pendant pulls her from 2026 into Halden House in 1955, Marianna finds herself no longer studying the past, but living inside it.Thomas Sterling has devoted his life to caring for Halden House and everyone who crosses its threshold-human and otherwise. Alongside Benny, his ever-watchful ragdoll cat co-steward, he has never thought to ask whether something might be missing from it. Until Marianna arrives with impossible explanations and a gift for belonging.As days become weeks, Marianna discovers the difference between a life that is comfortable and one that is truly lived. But she cannot decide who she wants beside her until she understands where she belongs.The House That Remembers is Book 3 in The Heartbound Chronicles-a sweeping time travel romance of grief, memory, and the courage to choose connection.