All the Things We Buried by A. eM.

Dark psychological gothic horror, taboo, step-siblings trope.

In a haunted manor where memories never die, forbidden love starts to bloom. But what happens when some truths come out that are meant to stay buried?
When Dorian is called back at Gloomsbury Manor to help his mother with her strange, distant stepdaughter, he doesn’t expect the girl who opens the door- pale, sharp-tongued, and quietly broken- to become his obsession.
Lenore is nothing like he imagined. Fragile but defiant, trapped in a house that watches her sleep and whispers in the dark. The longer Dorian stays, the more the manor sinks its claws into him, warping time, bleeding secrets, twisting what’s real.
He starts to see things. Hear voices. And feel drawn to Lenore in ways no stepbrother should.
She says the house is haunted. That it remembers. That it wants something.
But Dorian is starting to believe the manor doesn’t just remember the past — it feeds on it.
And now that he’s here, it won’t let him leave either.
Because in Gloomsbury Manor…
Love never dies. It haunts.
It becomes the ghost that stays behind.