The Wychthorn Curse

She was born marked by a curse that turns love into a death sentence. Then she found a house full of people it couldn't touch.For eleven years, Wren Wychthorn has lived alone behind a wall of her own building - cut off from a valley that fears her family name, and from anyone she might accidentally kill simply by loving them. The Hollowing has claimed her mother, her grandmother, and the boy she loved at fourteen, and Wren has made her peace with a life measured entirely in careful distance.Then a broken bridge strands a stranger in the deep Wychwood, and Wren does the one thing eleven years of caution should have made unthinkable: she goes to help him.Corin and his household of outcasts - a fox-shifter girl too fierce to be afraid, a scholar hiding a wood-worker's power, a healer bound to the forest by an old bargain, and a woman who mothers them all without asking anything in return - take her in without once flinching from what she carries. For the first time in her life, Wren finds herself wanted rather than avoided, warmed rather than warned against, and falling for a man whose touch, impossibly, doesn't hurt him at all.But the found family Wren has stumbled into is the one thing that might finally break her curse - and the one thing a hunter from the Ashen Vow intends to weaponize before that happens. As the Thorn Moon approaches and old grief stirs at the heart of the wood, Wren must risk the only kind of loving she's ever truly feared: the kind with no walls left standing.THE WYCHTHORN CURSE is a complete, standalone dark fantasy romance featuring:¿ A cursed heroine who has never once been touched without cost¿ A found family of supernatural outcasts who refuse to let her stay alone¿ A slow-burn romance built on trust, patience, and one impossible touch at a time¿ A two-century-old wound at the heart of an ancient, watching wood¿ A curse that can only be broken by the very thing it was built to punishSpice level: moderate, fade-to-black. A complete, emotionally satisfying story with no cliffhanger - the curse is faced, the family is found, and the ending is earned.If you loved stories of dark fae courts, unlikely found families, and heroines who learn that being loved is not the same as being destroyed, step into the Wychwood. Wren has been alone long enough.