The Stain: A Dark Romance Novel

There's a knocking coming from under the floor - and Íris knows, before she'll admit it, that it isn't the pipe.Fifteen years ago, Íris was told her daughter had died. She believed what was easiest to believe - until faith curdled into obsession, obsession into a plan, and the plan carried her up a mountain road to marry a widower she never loved, into a stone house that hides, beneath the cellar's new plaster, a rectangle paler than the rest of the floor.The Stain isn't about finding the truth. It's about the price of hiding it - from everyone, including yourself.Íris lies. Fabricates. Maybe worse. And from the first page to the last, the novel refuses to tell you whether she deserves forgiveness. Alba knew everything and chose silence. Lúcio spent a lifetime investigating and discovered, in the end, that he'd only built a monument to order. And you'll close this book unable to decide whether you love Íris, hate her, or both - because that indecision is, for this story, the correct answer.A dark romance about broken motherhood, obsession, and the six faces one woman will wear to survive.Read with an open heart and a closed verdict.This book deals, without softening, with violence, grief, broken motherhood, obsession, and crime. Recommended for adult readers.