{"product_id":"this-soft-rotten-love","title":"This Soft Rotten Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eSix months pregnant and newly widowed, I came to France to bury a man I never really knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy husband died speaking French to someone invisible. Philip Grant—except that wasn’t his real name. The man who bought every photograph at my first gallery show, who married me three months later, had erased his entire past. His family. His twin brother. His bloodline. His real name: Beaumont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI should have left after the funeral. Should have left when I started waking at 3 AM choking on phantom water. When French words I’d never learned spilled from my mouth. When the cold seeped into my bones and wouldn’t leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI should have left before Vincent Beaumont became the only thing keeping me alive. My dead husband’s twin brother. The man who looked at me like I was dangerous. Like I was his. Whose hands on my skin felt like betrayal and salvation at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinter closed in. My belly grew rounder. And something in the château pressed closer. Hungry. Patient. Waiting for me to understand what Philip had done. What Vincent was hiding. Why the lake kept calling my name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Château Beaumont, love rots softly in the walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd some secrets are buried alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEASING October 10, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51618522366250,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/2898\/1290\/files\/1-1.png?v=1780328073","url":"https:\/\/authorsephyrra.com\/products\/this-soft-rotten-love","provider":"Author Sephyrra","version":"1.0","type":"link"}