In the summer of 1972, Evelyn Hart arrives at Sunflower House with one suitcase, an unopened letter from her mother, and a name she is desperate to leave behind.
The commune promises freedom. No clocks. No bosses. No fathers. There is bread on the table, music in the barn, children running barefoot through the dust, and Silas Reed—the beautiful poet who seems to understand Eve before she understands herself. Under Miriam Sparrow’s watchful guidance, Evelyn becomes Eve, and for the first time in her life, she feels chosen.
But Sunflower House has its own language. Warnings sound like blessings. Obedience is called healing. Locked rooms are explained away as protection. And the women who came before Eve have left traces the house cannot fully bury: a scarf, a poem, a hidden page, a single desperate word.
As Eve uncovers the truth about Rose, the missing woman whose shadow haunts the commune, she must decide whether freedom is something Sunflower House can give her—or something she will have to take.
Atmospheric, intimate, and unsettling, The Sunflower House is a literary psychological novel about seduction, survival, coercive love, and the terrifying moment when sanctuary becomes a cage.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
The commune promises freedom. No clocks. No bosses. No fathers. There is bread on the table, music in the barn, children running barefoot through the dust, and Silas Reed—the beautiful poet who seems to understand Eve before she understands herself. Under Miriam Sparrow’s watchful guidance, Evelyn becomes Eve, and for the first time in her life, she feels chosen.
But Sunflower House has its own language. Warnings sound like blessings. Obedience is called healing. Locked rooms are explained away as protection. And the women who came before Eve have left traces the house cannot fully bury: a scarf, a poem, a hidden page, a single desperate word.
As Eve uncovers the truth about Rose, the missing woman whose shadow haunts the commune, she must decide whether freedom is something Sunflower House can give her—or something she will have to take.
Atmospheric, intimate, and unsettling, The Sunflower House is a literary psychological novel about seduction, survival, coercive love, and the terrifying moment when sanctuary becomes a cage.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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